Dr. Towfique Raj is a Professor of Neuroscience and Genetics and Genomic Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His research focuses on the molecular basis of complex human traits, particularly neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. He uses high-throughput functional genomics, single-cell technologies, and integrative computational approaches to identify causal variants and regulatory mechanisms in disease-relevant cell types. Dr. Raj has played a leading role in several major NIH-funded initiatives and is a co-chair of the AI/ML Working Group within the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP). His work has helped establish how innate immune cells, including microglia and monocytes, contribute to genetic risk and disease progression.

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