
Led by a team of world-renowned fundamental and clinician scientists, CAPTURE ALS has been designed to contribute to the global effort to understand and treat ALS.

Sanjay Kalra, MD, FRCPC
Director, Principal Investigator at Edmonton Site, Neuroimaging Lead

Angela Genge, MD, FRCPC
Principal Investigator at Montreal Site, Executive Committee Member

Nicolas Dupré, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Principal Investigator at Quebec City Site, Executive Committee Member

Lorne Zinman, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Principal Investigator at Toronto Site

Janice Robertson, PhD
Fundamental Science Co-Lead, Executive Committee Member

Jasna Kriz, PhD, MD
Fundamental Science Co-Lead, Executive Committee Member

Wendy Johnston, MD, FRCPC
Patient Engagement Lead, Executive Committee Member

Yana Yunusova, PhD, CCC-SLP
Speech Lead

Ekaterina Rogaeva, PhD
Genetics Lead

Kelvin Jones, PhD
Electrophysiology Lead

Tania Bubela, PhD, JD
Ethics, Open Science and Intellectual Property Lead

Alan Evans, PhD
Bioinformatics Lead

Samir Das
Bioinformatics

Russ Greiner, PhD
Machine Learning Lead

Yasser Iturria-Medina, PhD
Personalized Medicine Lead

David Taylor, PhD
Executive Committee Member

Claire Magnussen, PhD
Program Manager

Agessandro Abrahao, MD, MSc, CSCN Diplomate (EMG)
Executive Committee Member

Gerald Pfeffer, PhD, MD, CM, FRCPC
Executive Committee Member
Advisory Committee

Edward Fon, MD, FRCPC
Scientific Director, Montreal Neurological Institute
Leader of the Open-Drug Discovery Platform
Leader of M4ND

Lucie Bruijn, PhD, MBA
Senior Director, Translational Medicine, Novartis Gene Therapies

Paul M. Matthews, FMedSci
Edmond and Lily Safra Chair
Head of Department of Brain Sciences, Faculty Medicine of Imperial College London
Associate Director, UK Dementia Research Institute

Robert Bowser, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer
Professor and Chair, Department of Neurobiology
Director, Gregory W. Fulton ALS Research Center
Barrow Neurological Institute

Vincent Mooser, MD
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Genomic Medicine
Director Québec COVID-19 Biobank
Department of Human Genetics / Faculty of Medicine / McGill University