Sydney Zakutney worked as a research assistant with the Lochmüller Lab’s clinical research team at the OHRI from 2023-2025. She is now completing a Physician Assistant Education Program at McMaster University.
Sydney 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.
