Towfique Raj, Ph.D. is Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Functional Genomics in the Ronald M. Loeb Center for Alzheimer's Disease. He is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience, and Genetics and Genomics at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is a member of the interdisciplinary Friedman Brain Institute and the Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology.
Dr. Raj received B.S. in Computer Science from Drexel University, and his Ph.D. in Genetics from Cambridge University. Dr Raj completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Brigham and Women?s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Before joining the faculty at Mount Sinai, Dr Raj was an Instructor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and was subsequently a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. Among his honors, Dr. Raj has received the prestigious Gates-Cambridge Scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award.
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