Steven Boeynaems, (PhD)

Dr. Boeynaems is an Assistant Professor in Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine, an Investigator at the Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital, and a Faculty Member of the Therapeutic Innovation Center, the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the Center for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases. He is a CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research and an NIH Director’s New Innovator. Dr. Boeynaems has over a decade of expertise in the study of tandem repeats and protein aggregation in human disease and has contributed important insights into the pathophysiology of C9orf72 ALS/FTD.