Richard P. Lifton
Richard P. Lifton | |
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| 11th President of Rockefeller University | |
| Assumed office September 1, 2016 | |
| Preceded by | Marc Tessier-Lavigne |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1953 (age 72–73) |
| Education | Dartmouth College (BA) Stanford University (MD, PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Awards | Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences (2008) Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2014) |
| Fields | Genetics |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | The organization and expression of the Drosophila melanogaster histone genes and interspersed mobile elements (1986) |
| David Hogness | |
Richard Priestley Lifton (born 1953) is an American biochemist who has been serving as the 11th and current president of Rockefeller University since September 2016.[1]
Education and career
[edit]He earned his B.A. in biological sciences in 1975 from Dartmouth College. He got his M.D. in 1982 and Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1986, both from Stanford University.[2] He trained at Brigham and Women's Hospital before starting his lab at Yale in 1993.[3] He has been awarded the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences for his discovery of genes that are associated with the regulation of blood pressure.[4] In 2014 he was awarded the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his work.[5] He has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator since 1994. He was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine, and he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[6]
In May 2016, Lifton was named the president of Rockefeller University.[7] He succeeded Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who left to assume the presidency of Stanford University, Lifton's alma mater.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Richard P. Lifton assumes office as the university's 11th president". The Rockefeller University. September 1, 2016. Retrieved September 1, 2016.
- ↑ Lifton, Richard Priestley (1986). The Organization And Expression Of The Drosophila Melanogaster Histone Genes And Interspersed Mobile Elements (repeated, Pseudogenes) (Ph.D.). Stanford University. OCLC 245263386. ProQuest 303513109.
- ↑ "Richard Lifton, M.D., Ph.D." Broad Institute. Archived from the original on October 31, 2012. Retrieved November 1, 2012.
- ↑ "Seventh Annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences Awarded to Dr. Richard P. Lifton". Retrieved October 23, 2012.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ "Laureates: 2014". Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
- ↑ "Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D." HHMI. Archived from the original on March 9, 2013. Retrieved November 1, 2012.
- ↑ "Richard P. Lifton named 11th president of The Rockefeller University". Rockefeller University. Archived from the original on March 19, 2017. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
External links
[edit]- HHMI bio Archived March 9, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- faculty bio Archived August 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
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