Dr.
Paul
Boutros
(BSc
Co-op
Chemistry
’04)
pursued
his
undergraduate
education
at
the
University
of
Waterloo
in
Chemistry,
with
co-op
training
ranging
from
water-purification
to
petrochemicals.
But
he
found
his
true
calling
during
a
work
term
at
Michigan
State
University
developing
computer
models
of
drug
response.
His
undergraduate
thesis
on
modeling
DNA
damage
received
first
place
at
the
National
Undergraduate
Chemistry
Conference.
In
2004,
he
started
a
PhD
at
the
Ontario
Cancer
Institute,
where
he
received
the
CIHR/Next
Generation
First
Prize
and
an
Invitrogen
Canada
Young
Investigator
Silver
Award.
He
received
his
PhD
in
2008
and
started
his
independent
research
career
at
the
Ontario
Institute
for
Cancer
Research,
where
he
remains
today.
Dr.
Boutros
co-leads
the
Canadian
Prostate
Cancer
Genome
Network
and
leads
an
international
consortium
optimizing
algorithms
for
genomic
data
analysis.
He
is
a
Terry
Fox
Research
Institute
New
Investigator,
and
has
been
named
Prostate
Cancer
Canada
Rising
Star
in
Prostate
Cancer
Research.
