Teresa Purzner

Teresa Purzner is the co-founder and CSO of Cerebelly. Teresa is also an interdisciplinary graduate fellow of BioX and a scholar of SPARK. Teresa has been a neurosurgical resident of The Hospital for Sick Children for 13 years and University of Toronto for 11 years.

Teresa’s awards and recognition include the Annual Award of the American Academy of Neurological Surgery 2017, Weston Havens Foundation award 2017, SPARK translational grant 2017, AIRC grant (collaborator) IG-14180 2017, BioX symposium award 2015, SPARK translational award for top presentation of the year 2015, SIGF fellow 2015, Morley Prize for excellence in neurosurgical research 2015, Bio-X interdisciplinary graduate fellowship 2015, K.G. McKenzie prize for Basic Science Research 2015, AANS Louise Eisenhardt Resident Award 2015, Neurosurgery Research and Education Fellowship 2014, Stanford SPARK Scholar 2014 Stanford SPARK pilot grant recipient 2014 Horsey Prize for excellence in clinical research 2010, Helen Mildred Blythe Allison Undergraduate Award in Medicine 2008, Richard Ivey Foundation Award in Medicine 2008, American Association of Neurology Summer Research Scholarship 2007 Samuel Lunenfeld Summer Research Student Training Program 2006 L. Maxwell Forsythe Scholarship in Medicine 2005 Awarded to the student entering first year of medicine who has achieved the highest applicant score NSERC scholarship for research in neurology 2005 NSERC scholarship for research in neurology 2004 Wasser Achievement Award for Outstanding Leadership & Academic Excellence 2004 Innis College Anniversary Scholarship 2004 Outstanding Achievement Award; Bio250 2004 Innis College Anniversary Scholarship 2003 Letter of Recognition of Excellence; CHM139, CHM138 2003 University of Toronto Scholar 2003-2005.