Towfique Raj | Mount Sinai

Biography

Research Topics

Alzheimer's Disease, Genetics, Genetics of Movement disorders, Genomics, Human Genetics and Genetic Disorders, Macrophage, Microglia, Parkinson's Disease, RNA Splicing & Processing

Education

PhD, University of Cambridge

Postdoctoral Fellow, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Postdoctoral Fellow, Broad Institute

Publications

96

Publications

Selected Publications

Genetic, transcriptomic, histological, and biochemical analysis of progressive supranuclear palsy implicates glial activation and novel risk genes. Kurt Farrell, Jack Humphrey, Timothy Chang, Yi Zhao, Yuk Yee Leung, Pavel P. Kuksa, Vishakha Patil, Wan Ping Lee, Amanda B. Kuzma, Otto Valladares, Laura B. Cantwell, Hui Wang, Ashvin Ravi, Claudia De Sanctis, Natalia Han, Thomas D. Christie, Robina Afzal, Shrishtee Kandoi, Kristen Whitney, Margaret M. Krassner, Hadley Ressler, Soong Ho Kim, Diana Dangoor, Megan A. Iida, Alicia Casella, Ruth H. Walker, Melissa J. Nirenberg, Alan E. Renton, Bergan Babrowicz, Giovanni Coppola, Towfique Raj, Günter U. Höglinger, Ulrich Müller, Lawrence I. Golbe, Huw R. Morris, John Hardy, Tamas Revesz, Tom T. Warner, Zane Jaunmuktane, Kin Y. Mok, Rosa Rademakers, Dennis W. Dickson, Owen A. Ross, Li San Wang, Alison Goate, Gerard Schellenberg, Daniel H. Geschwind, Justo García de Yebenes, Fairlie Hinton, John F. Crary. Nature Communications

MAPT haplotype-associated transcriptomic changes in progressive supranuclear palsy. Hadley W. Ressler, Jack Humphrey, Ricardo A. Vialle, Bergan Babrowicz, Shrishtee Kandoi, Towfique Raj, Dennis W. Dickson, Nilüfer Ertekin-Taner, John F. Crary, Kurt Farrell. Acta neuropathologica communications

Correction to: TDP-43 loss and ALS-risk SNPs drive mis-splicing and depletion of UNC13A (Nature, (2022), 603, 7899, (131-137), 10.1038/s41586-022-04436-3). Anna Leigh Brown, Oscar G. Wilkins, Matthew J. Keuss, Sarah E. Hill, Matteo Zanovello, Weaverly Colleen Lee, Alexander Bampton, Flora C.Y. Lee, Laura Masino, Yue A. Qi, Sam Bryce-Smith, Ariana Gatt, Martina Hallegger, Delphine Fagegaltier, Hemali Phatnani, Jia Newcombe, Emil K. Gustavsson, Sahba Seddighi, Joel F. Reyes, Steven L. Coon, Daniel Ramos, Giampietro Schiavo, Elizabeth M.C. Fisher, Towfique Raj, Maria Secrier, Tammaryn Lashley, Jernej Ule, Emanuele Buratti, Jack Humphrey, Michael E. Ward, Pietro Fratta, Hemali Phatnani, Justin Kwan, Dhruv Sareen, James R. Broach, Zachary Simmons, Ximena Arcila-Londono, Edward B. Lee, Vivianna M. Van Deerlin, Neil A. Shneider, Ernest Fraenkel, Lyle W. Ostrow, Frank Baas, Noah Zaitlen, James D. Berry, Andrea Malaspina, Daniel J. MacGowan, John Crary, Dale J. Lange, Towfique Raj. Nature

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Office Locations

Icahn (East) Building

1425 Madison Ave

New York, NY 10029

Industry Relationships

Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology companies, and other outside entities to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their outside financial relationships.

Dr. Raj has not yet completed reporting of Industry relationships.

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Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology companies, and other outside entities to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their outside financial relationships.

Dr. Raj has not yet completed reporting of Industry relationships.

Mount Sinai's faculty policies relating to faculty collaboration with industry are posted on our website. Patients may wish to ask their physician about the activities they perform for companies.