Dr. Mallory Downie, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator
Mallory Downie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre and a paediatric nephrologist at Montreal Children’s Hospital. She is cross appointed to the Department of Human Genetics. 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 went on to complete her paediatrics residency in 2016 and paediatric nephrology fellowship in 2018 at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. She then received 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.
