David Ginty, Ph.D.

David Ginty is the Edward R. and Anne G. Lefler Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His research focuses on development and functional organization of neural circuits that underlie touch perception in normal and disease states, and he serves as associate director of Harvard’s Program in Neuroscience. Dr. Ginty is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.