Dr. Mallory Downie, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator
Mallory Downie is a Junior Scientist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Genetics at McGill University. She is also a paediatric nephrologist at Montreal Children's Hospital. She has trained in genetics, bioinformatics, biostatistics, paediatrics, and nephrology. After receiving her BSc in 2008 in chemistry from McGill University, she obtained her MD in 2012 from the University of Toronto. She then completed her paediatrics residency in 2016 and paediatric nephrology fellowship in 2018 at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. She then completed her PhD in 2022 at University College London, UK studying the genetics of childhood nephrotic syndromes. She also received further clinical training in paediatric nephrology from Great Ormond Street Hospital, London while in the UK. Her research program focuses on the identification of new genes and genetic risk factors in childhood kidney disease.
