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ProfessorDepartment of MedicineUniversity of Saskatchewan

Alex Rajput

Professor

Department of Medicine

University of Saskatchewan

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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22 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 3 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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Movement Disorders

Latest papers

Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Access to Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Parkinson's Disease.
Movement disorders clinical practice · 2026
Single-cell expression QTL analyses of the human cerebellum reveal vulnerability of oligodendrocytes in essential tremor
Nature Genetics · 2026
High molecular weight insoluble parkin in the substantia nigra of patients with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease
npj Parkinson s Disease · 2026

All 65 publications

Latest funding

Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Access to Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$160,000
Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Access to Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$268,000

All 2 grants and awards

65 publications.

Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Access to Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Parkinson's Disease.

Ba F, Poonja S, Torabi P, Yen K, Daud Shah B, Noyes E, Dimapilis G, Corrick S, Sankar T, Rajput A, Monchi O, Vitali AM, Salami B, Shetty A, Miyasaki JM

Movement disorders clinical practice20264 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/mdc3.70312 PMID: 40904041

Single-cell expression QTL analyses of the human cerebellum reveal vulnerability of oligodendrocytes in essential tremor

Charles-Etienne Castonguay, Farah Aboasali, Miranda Medeiros, Paria Alipour, Kate Bornais, Théodore Becret, Zoe Schmilovich, Anouar Khayachi, A. Rajput, Patrick A. Dion, G Rouleau

Nature Genetics20261 citations

DOI: 10.1038/s41588-026-02544-8 PMID: 41857318

High molecular weight insoluble parkin in the substantia nigra of patients with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease

Cyntia Tremblay, Laura Pshevorskiy, Rosalie Juliette Cottez, Hélèna L. Denis, Vincent Émond, Marc Morissette, Ali H. Rajput, Thérèse Di Paolo, Alex Rajput, Frédéric Calon

npj Parkinson s Disease2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41531-026-01371-2 PMID: 42098169

WDR44 drives de novo α-synuclein aggregation at the lysosomal membrane and promotes neuronal dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease.

Teixeira M, Sheta R, Bérard M, Insinna C, Mahul-Mellier AL, Delmas CVL, Lépinay E, Idi W, Ricard A, Del Cid-Pellitero E, Trabolsi C, Gobeil S, Canron MH, Bézard E, Rajput A, Cicchetti F, Parent M, Fon EA, Ramalingam N, Dettmer U, Calon F, Westlake C, Lashuel HA, Oueslati A

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2026Open Access

DOI: 10.64898/2026.04.03.716340 PMID: 41993512

Copy Number Variant Duplications Associated with Essential Tremor.

Medeiros M, Liao C, Dilliott AA, Ross JP, Vuokila V, Aboasali F, Castonguay CE, Spiegelman D, Hopfner F, Vilariño-Güell C, García-Martín E, Alonso-Navarro H, Agúndez JAG, Jiménez-Jiménez FJ, Pastor P, Rajput A, Rajput A, Deuschl G, Kuhlenbäumer G, Girard SL, Farhan SMK, Dion PA, Rouleau GA

Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.)2026

DOI: 10.5334/tohm.1132 PMID: 41694793

Copy Number Variation and Haplotype Analysis of 17q21.31 Reveals Increased Risk Associated with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Gene Expression Changes in Neuronal Cells

Hui Wang, Timothy S. Chang, Beth A. Dombroski, Po‐Liang Cheng, Yaqin Si, Albert A. Tucci, Vishakha Patil, Leopoldo Valiente‐Banuet, Chong Li, Kurt W. Farrell, Catriona McLean, Laura Molina‐Porcel, Alex Rajput, Peter Paul De Deyn, Nathalie Le Bastard, Marla Gearing, Laura Donker Kaat, John Cornelis Van Swieten, Elise G.P. Dopper, Bernardino Francesco Ghetti, Kathy L. Newell, Claire Troakes, Justo G. de Yébenes, Alberto Rábano‐Gutierrez, Tina Meller, Wolfgang Hermann Oertel, Gesine Respondek, María Stamelou, Thomas Arzberger, Sigrun Roeber, et al. (67 authors)

Movement Disorders20254 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/mds.30150 PMID: 40055946

Metamorphopsia in a Male with Parkinson Disease: A Giant Problem?

Noyes E, Gattey N, Reding J, Rajput A

The Canadian journal of neurological sciences. Le journal canadien des sciences neurologiques2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1017/cjn.2025.10375 PMID: 40685913

Increased Survival in Contemporary Parkinson's Disease: A 47-Year Autopsy Study.

Noyes E, Noyes E, Rajput AH, Kim M, Rajput A

Neuroepidemiology2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1159/000541420 PMID: 39541953

RAB32 Ser71Arg in autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease: linkage, association, and functional analyses.

Gustavsson EK, Follett J, Trinh J, Barodia SK, Real R, Liu Z, Grant-Peters M, Fox JD, Appel-Cresswell S, Stoessl AJ, Rajput A, Rajput AH, Auer R, Tilney R, Sturm M, Haack TB, Lesage S, Tesson C, Brice A, Vilariño-Güell C, Ryten M, Goldberg MS, West AB, Hu MT, Morris HR, Sharma M, Gan-Or Z, Samanci B, Lis P, Periñan MT, Amouri R, Ben Sassi S, Hentati F, Global Parkinson's Genetics Program (GP2), Tonelli F, Alessi DR, Farrer MJ

The Lancet. Neurology2024114 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/s1474-4422(24)00121-2 PMID: 38614108

Whole-genome sequencing analysis reveals new susceptibility loci and structural variants associated with progressive supranuclear palsy

Hui Wang, Timothy S. Chang, Beth A. Dombroski, Po‐Liang Cheng, Vishakha Patil, Leopoldo Valiente‐Banuet, Kurt W. Farrell, Catriona McLean, Laura Molina‐Porcel, Alex H. Rajput, Peter Paul De Deyn, Nathalie Le Bastard, Marla Gearing, Laura Donker Kaat, John Cornelis Van Swieten, Elise G.P. Dopper, Bernardino Francesco Ghetti, Kathy L. Newell, Claire Troakes, Justo Garcı́a de Yébenes, Alberto Rábano‐Gutierrez, Tina Meller, Wolfgang Hermann Oertel, Gesine Respondek, María Stamelou, Thomas Arzberger, Sigrun Roeber, Ulrich Müller, Franziska Hopfner, Pau Pástor, et al. (62 authors)

Molecular Neurodegeneration202428 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1186/s13024-024-00747-3 PMID: 39152475

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Alex Rajput

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Access to Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Parkinson's Disease.

Single-cell expression QTL analyses of the human cerebellum reveal vulnerability of oligodendrocytes in essential tremor

High molecular weight insoluble parkin in the substantia nigra of patients with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease

WDR44 drives de novo &#x3b1;-synuclein aggregation at the lysosomal membrane and promotes neuronal dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease.

Copy Number Variant Duplications Associated with Essential Tremor.

Copy Number Variation and Haplotype Analysis of 17q21.31 Reveals Increased Risk Associated with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Gene Expression Changes in Neuronal Cells

Metamorphopsia in a Male with Parkinson Disease: A Giant Problem?

Increased Survival in Contemporary Parkinson's Disease: A 47-Year Autopsy Study.

RAB32 Ser71Arg in autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease: linkage, association, and functional analyses.

Whole-genome sequencing analysis reveals new susceptibility loci and structural variants associated with progressive supranuclear palsy

Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Access to Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery

Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Access to Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery

Frequent collaborators

Carles Vilarino-Guell

Matthew Farrer

Guy Rouleau

Adam Boxer

Michel Panisset

Ali Rajput

Frédéric Calon

Silke Appel-Cresswell

Lili-Naz Hazrati

Roland Auer

Mark Haacke

Geneviève Bernard

Martin McKeown

Ziv Gan-Or

Simon Girard

Helen Nichol

Peter Szkup

Krista Baerg

Mohan Babu

Gary Linassi

Charity Evans

Ian Mackenzie

Martin Parent

Bogdan Popescu

Abid Oueslati

Oluwabukola Salami

WDR44 drives de novo α-synuclein aggregation at the lysosomal membrane and promotes neuronal dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease.