Biography

Dr. Bolduc was born in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. After completing his medical school in Sherbrook, Quebec, Canada, he moved to Montreal to study pediatrics at Hôpital Ste Justine (Université de Montreal) and then pediatric neurology at McGill University’s Montreal Children Hospital and Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI).

Realizing the importance of the challenge of understanding human intelligence development, he decided to apply an experimental approach to the question of how genes make us intelligent? He moved to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA and enrolled in the PhD program of the Watson School of Biological Sciences. He studied the genetic basis of learning and memory with special attention to intellectual disability genes Fragile X in Drosophila.

After completing his PhD, Dr Bolduc returned to the practice of pediatric neurology in conjuncture with basic science research in Drosophila as an assistant professor at the University of Alberta. He currently pursues the genetic study of several candidate genes involved in intellectual disability.