Paul Boutros

Biography

2013 Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Toronto 2012 Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto 2011 Principal Investigator, Informatics & Biocomputing, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research 2009 Fellow, Informatics & Biocomputing, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research 2009 PhD Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto 2004 BSc Chemistry, University of Waterloo Dr. Paul Boutros pursued his undergraduate education at the University of Waterloo in Chemistry. During the co-op portion of his degree he worked for a wide range of organizations, including the Federal Government, a water-purification company and Petro-Canada. But he found his true calling during a work-term spent at Michigan State University developing computer models of how cells respond to drugs and toxins. In 2004, he started his PhD at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto. During his studies he received several awards, including the CIHR/Next Generation First Prize and the Invitrogen Canada Young Investigator Silver Award. He began his independent research career with an appointment at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research in 2009. Paul is now a Principal Investigator in Informatics & Biocomputing at OICR, and an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology & Toxicology and Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto. He is a Prostate Cancer Canada Rising Star, and has received CIHR and TFRI New Investigator Awards. His work focuses on the development of clinically useful biomarkers using genomic and data science techniques like next-generation sequencing, clinical and cellular imaging, machine-learning, crowd-sourcing and cloud-computing. 2013 Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Toronto 2012 Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto 2011 Principal Investigator, Informatics & Biocomputing, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research 2009 Fellow, Informatics & Biocomputing, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research 2009 PhD Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto 2004 BSc Chemistry, University of Waterloo Dr. Paul Boutros pursued his undergraduate education at the University of Waterloo in Chemistry. During the co-op portion of his degree he worked for a wide range of organizations, including the Federal Government, a water-purification company and Petro-Canada. But he found his true calling during a work-term spent at Michigan State University developing computer models of how cells respond to drugs and toxins. In 2004, he started his PhD at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto. During his studies he received several awards, including the CIHR/Next Generation First Prize and the Invitrogen Canada Young Investigator Silver Award. He began his independent research career with an appointment at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research in 2009. Paul is now a Principal Investigator in Informatics & Biocomputing at OICR, and an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology & Toxicology and Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto. He is a Prostate Cancer Canada Rising Star, and has received CIHR and TFRI New Investigator Awards. His work focuses on the development of clinically useful biomarkers using genomic and data science techniques like next-generation sequencing, clinical and cellular imaging, machine-learning, crowd-sourcing and cloud-computing.

Research Interest

Biological Foci: personalized medicine, cancer genomics, biomarkers, prostate cancer Technologies: DNA-sequencing, RNA-sequencing, imagining Techniques: Computational biology, machine-learning Global leader in prostate cancer biomarkers and genomics Setting the standards for the analysis of cancer genomic data Major focus on data visualization