Dr. Rozlyn Boutin, Year 4 in the UBC Medical Genetics & Genomics Residency Program, is the recipient of a 2025 Friedman Award for Scholars in Health.

The Friedman Award for Scholars in Health provides support for graduate students or medical residents working in the broad area of health to travel outside of Western Canada and bring new perspectives to their education and further their career (https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/friedman-award-scholars-health). This award is helping to support Dr. boutin’s 1-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy at the Center for Maternal-Fetal Precision Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (https://mfprecision.ucsf.edu/fellowship/). Part of Rozlyn’s work here has also been to establish a first-in-kind Center for Genome Surgery, with a mission to develop and implement curative therapies for children with well-defined genetic disorders, and run a weekly case conference that assesses patients with rare diseases for their potential to be treated with a bespoke gene therapy.