Professor Paul Goodyer is an MD, pediatric nephrologist and scientist. He is the Professor of Pediatrics and Human Genetics, McGill University in Canada.

Professor Goodyer heads a research laboratory at the McGill University Health Center Research Institute focused on molecular control of kidney development as it pertains to hereditary renal disease.

With Nicoletta Eliopoulos of the Jewish General Hospital and an international team of collaborators, he is engaged in an effort to develop stem cell therapy for cystinosis, that is particularly prevalent among French Canadians.