Kym Boycott PhD, MD, FRCPC, FCCMG

Biography

Kym Boycott is a Medical Geneticist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), Senior Scientist at the CHEO Research Institute, and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Boycott’s research program in rare diseases bridges clinical medicine to basic research and is focused on understanding the molecular pathogenesis of these disorders, enabling the design of new therapies to ultimately benefit patients and their families. She is a leader of Canada’s national genome-wide sequencing platform for rare disease, Care4Rare Canada, and of the Rare Diseases: Models & Mechanisms Network, established to catalyze connections between clinical investigators discovering new genes in patients with rare diseases and basic scientists who can analyze equivalent genes and pathways in model organisms. Dr. Boycott moves the international rare disease agenda forward through her role as the Chair of the Diagnostics Committee of the International Rare Diseases Research Consortium.