Sydney Zakutney holds a bachelor’s honour’s degree in biology and minor in chemistry from Acadia university. Her honour’s work examined the impact of the relaxin-3 neuropeptide (RLN-3) on brain inflammation and neural degeneration following a traumatic brain injury. During the summer of 2021 Sydney worked with Dr. Jocelyn Zwicker at the Ottawa Neuromuscular Center at the Civic hospital to create a resources page on the neuromuscular center webpage for patients with ALS in the Ottawa area.
After graduating from Acadia university in May of 2023, Sydney joined the Lochmüller Lab’s clinical research team as a research assistant until 2025.
