J.T. Neal, PhD profile page

Dr. J.T. Neal is currently an institute scientist and principal investigator at the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard in the Metabolism Program and the NNF Center for the Genomic Mechanisms of Disease. He is also co-director of the Type 2 Diabetes Systems Genomics Initiative at the Broad Institute. Neal received his BS in biochemistry from the University of Washington and his PhD from the University of Oregon, where he studied host-microbe interactions during development and tumorigenesis. He completed postdoctoral training as an American Cancer Society Fellow at Stanford University, developing new organoid culture and single-cell sequencing methods for the study of tumor immunology. At the Broad Institute, the Neal lab develops and applies novel technologies for genome editing as well as massively parallel approaches for studying the effects of genetic variation in cancer and other diseases. Neal is also a recipient of a Merkin Institute Fellowship and a 2021 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award.