Thierry Lacaze-Masmontei, MD, PhD

Member of the CNN Governing board

Scientific Director
Maternal Infant Child and Youth Research Network (MICYRN)

Dr. Thierry Lacaze-Masmonteil is the Scientific Director of MICYRN and the RareKids-CAN Nominated Principal Investigator.  He received his medical degree from the University Paris 5 – René Descartes in 1993 and a PhD in biological sciences at the University Paris 7 – Pierre et Marie Curie in 1995. He completed a fellowship in Neonatology in 1997 and a Master in Epidemiology in 2000. He was appointed professor of Pediatrics at the University Paris 11 in 1997. Thierry moved to Edmonton, Alberta, in 2003 to become the inaugural director of the Women and Children Health Research Institute (WCHRI) in 2006. In 2010, He was recruited as a senior scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute and was the scientific director of the Clinical Research Unit at CHEO from 2011 to 2015. From 2016 to 2021, Thierry has been Professor of Pediatrics and Section Head of Neonatology at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. Since 2021, he has dedicated most of his time to MICYRN, expanding capacities and providing services of an Academic Research Organization. He is a Principal Investigator of the CIHR-funded CHEER initiative (The Canadian Collaboration for Child Health: Efficiency and Excellence in the Ethics Review of Research (https://cheerchildhealth.ca/). SInce March 2024, Thierry leads the Pediatric Rare Disease Clinical Trial and Treatment Network: RareKids-CAN (https://www.rarekidscan.com/). His areas of study include pediatric clinical trials with an emphasis on drugs and innovative methods.