Sumaiya Iqbal, Ph.D.
Senior Group Leader, Bioinformatics and Machine Learning
Sumaiya Iqbal is a senior group leader in the Ladders to Cures (L2C) accelerator at the Ó³»´«Ã½ of MIT and Harvard. She is a computer scientist by training but a life science researcher by determination; she uses data science and machine learning to bridge genetics, proteomics, and therapeutics. She developed the portal, a discovery tool for linking genetic screening outputs to protein sequences and structures.
The focus of the is connecting genetic discovery to proteins and mechanisms via several aims: building bioinformatics resources to bridge the gap across complex multi-omics data types, developing methods to unveil the molecular effect of genetic/synthetic mutations on protein structure-function relationships, and building AI-driven innovative tools for small-molecule hit identification using data from DNA-encoded library screening, and other approaches.
Iqbal started her lab at the Ó³»´«Ã½ in 2023, after two years as a postdoc at the of MGH, Harvard Medical School, and the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, and three years as a research scientist at the Center for Development of Therapeutics at the Ó³»´«Ã½. Iqbal has earned the Ó³»´«Ã½ SPARC award, the Merkin Institute award for Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, and the award.
Iqbal holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of New Orleans, and a M.Sc. and B.Sc. in computer science from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.
Contact Sumaiya Iqbal via email at sumaiya@broadinstitute.org.
September 2024
