Headshot of Conrad Iyegbe.

Conrad Iyegbe

Postdoctoral research fellow
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Conrad Iyegbe is a postdoctoral research fellow in genetics and genomics sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.

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