Robert Thompson completed his pediatrics residency at Boston Children’s Hospital and is currently a neurogenetics and gene therapy fellow in Dr. Florian Eichler’s program at Mass General as well as a genetics and metabolism fellow in the Harvard Medical School Genetics Training Program. He plans to practice as a biochemical geneticist and hope to start a translational research group focused on bringing gene targeted therapies from bench to bedside for patients with inborn errors of metabolism. He is passionate about helping to scale the safe and equitable translation of genomic therapies via both traditional larger scale trials as well as innovative “N of 1” or “N of few” individualized approaches.
Main Area of Research: Gene therapy, newborn screening, clinical trials