Vancouver Coastal Health Research Insitute is one of Canada's top-funded health research institutes. Their researchers represent a multitude of health disciplines, research backgrounds and clinical occupations. Vancouver Coastal Health is currently recruiting healthy subjects as controls for various studies, including Dr. Silke Appel-Cresswell's work on the fungal microbiome of the gut in Parkinson's. 

Study participant Andrew Dewberry encourages others to participate in studies like the one headed by Dr. Appel-Cresswell. "Any medical advances these studies produce may end up benefitting me. I'm healthy now - but who knows if I will be in the future? Participating in these studies has also given me a lot of information about my own health. I know a lot more about my heart and about my knee health now. I learn something new each time [I participate in a study]."

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