Richard P. Lifton

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Richard P. Lifton
11thPresident of Rockefeller University
Incumbent
Assumed office
September 1, 2016 (2016-09-01)
Thesis The organization and expression of the Drosophila melanogaster histone genes and interspersed mobile elements  (1986)
Doctoral advisor 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]

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Education and career

He earned his B.A. in biological sciences from Dartmouth College and in 1986 he got his M.D. and Ph.D. in biochemistry 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.

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References

  1. ↑ "Richard P. Lifton assumes office as the university's 11th president". The Rockefeller University. September 1, 2016. Retrieved September 1, 2016.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ "Richard Lifton, M.D., Ph.D." Broad Institute. Retrieved November 1, 2012.[ dead link ]
  4. ↑ "Seventh Annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences Awarded to Dr. Richard P. Lifton".[ dead link ]
  5. ↑ "Laureates: 2014". Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
  6. ↑ "Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D." HHMI. Retrieved November 1, 2012.[ dead link ]
  7. ↑ "Richard P. Lifton named 11th president of The Rockefeller University". Rockefeller University. Retrieved May 5, 2016.[ dead link ]
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