Towfique Raj, PhD

Towfique Raj, PhD, is a Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience and Genetics and Genomics, and a core faculty member at the Ronald M. Loeb Center for Alzheimer’s Disease at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He received his PhD in Genetics from the University of Cambridge and completed postdoctoral training at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Dr. Raj’s research investigates the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. His lab integrates high-throughput functional genomics with computational methods and artificial intelligence/machine learning approaches to map how genetic variants influence gene regulation in disease-relevant cell types. He leads multiple NIH-funded efforts to generate and analyze large-scale multi-omic datasets from idiopathic and genetic Parkinson’s disease cohorts. His overarching goal is to define the genetic architecture of neurodegeneration and translate these discoveries into therapeutic strategies.