Sumaiya Iqbal, Ph.D.

Sumaiya Iqbal is a senior group leader in the Ladders to Cures (L2C) accelerator at the Broad Institute 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 Genomics 2 Proteins portal, a discovery tool for linking genetic screening outputs to protein sequences and structures.

The focus of the Iqbal lab 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 Broad Institute in 2023, after two years as a postdoc at the Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit 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 Broad. Iqbal has earned the Broad Institute SPARC award, the Merkin Institute award for Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, and the BroadIgnite 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.