Paul Boutros, PhD, MBA

University of California Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

Paul C. Boutros, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Human Genetics and Urology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Through UCLA Health, he also runs the Dr. Paul Boutros Lab on Cancer Data Sciences. He earned a BSc degree in Chemistry from the University of Waterloo in Ontario before pursuing a PhD in Medical Biophysics at the Ontario Cancer Institute of the University of Toronto. He also earned his MBA from the Rothman School of Management of the University of Toronto. After receiving his PhD, Dr. Boutros pursued an independent research career as a Fellow and then as a Principal Investigator at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. He also served as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology & Toxicology and Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto. He relocated to UCLA in 2018.

Dr. Boutros’ research focuses on personalizing therapy for cancer by developing novel statistical methodologies. His Cancer Data Sciences Lab uses computational techniques to analyze large data sets to create diagnostics to personalize cancer therapy. He largely focuses on prostate cancer, but his lab is increasingly applying the same computational techniques to other cancers, including kidney and bladder cancers.

Dr. Boutros has received numerous awards and accolades. He is the recipient of the Terry Fox New Investigator Award, a University of Waterloo Young Alumni Award, the Early Career Graduate Student Teaching Award, and the Dorval Prize of the Canadian Cancer Society. He has also been recognized as a Prostate Cancer Canada Rising Star in Prostate Cancer Research.