Jack
Humphrey

Dr. Jack Humphrey obtained his Ph.D. in Clinical Neuroscience from University College London, after spending time as a visiting researcher at Stanford University and as an intern at a cancer biotech startup. After moving to New York for a postdoctoral fellowship at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, he was promoted to junior faculty in 2021. He develops and applies methods to analyze large human datasets to understand the genetics and biology of neurodegenerative diseases, including Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Frontotemporal Dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease. He is a Visiting Scientist at the New York Genome Center, where he leads the functional genomics analysis of postmortem tissue samples. His research program has been funded by the ALS Association, Target ALS, My Name’5 Doddie, CurePSP, the Packard Center, and the NIH.