Matt Might

Dr. Matthew Might is the Director of the Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Medicine. There, he leverages his expertise in genomics and informatics to drive the Institute’s strategic direction. Formerly, Matthew served as a member of the White House’s Precision Medicine Initiative and was an Associate Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah. He received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, and in 2014 he was appointed one of six Presidential Scholars at the University of Utah. Matthew received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. His son, Bertrand, was the first patient ever discovered with a rare disorder known as N-Glycanase deficiency. Matt posted an essay online that catalyzed the creation of the NGLY1 patient community, the remarkable aftermath of which has been chronicled in publications such as The New Yorker and Der Spiegel.