Prof. Dr Richard P. Lifton

Biography

Studies BA, Biology, Dartmouth College, USA 1975 MD, Stanford University, USA 1982 PhD, Biochemistry, Stanford University, USA 1986 Professional Career 1986 - 1987 Chief Medical Resident, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Massachusetts, USA 1986 - 1990 Instructor in Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Massachusetts, USA 1991 - 1993 Assistant Professor Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, USA 1994 - present Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Maryland, USA 1993 - 1994 Assistant Professor, Medicine & Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut, USA 1994 - 1997 Associate Professor, Medicine & Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut, USA 1997 - 2016 Professor, Internal Medicine & Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut, USA 1998 - 2016 Director, Yale Center for Human Genetics & Genomics, Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut, USA 1998 - 2016 Chairman, Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut, USA 2002 - 2016 Sterling Professor of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut, USA 2009 - 2016 Executive Director, Yale Center for Genome Analysis, Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut, USA 2016 - present Adjunct Professor of Genetics and Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut, USA 2016 - present President of The Rockefeller University, New York City, New York, USA Other Activities / Memberships 1996 - 2002 Chair, Scientific Supervisory Board, Curagen Corporation, USA 2000 - 2002 Scientific Advisory Board, Merck & Co., USA 2002 - 2004 Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, Merck & Co., USA 2004 - 2014 Advisor to President, Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co., USA 2012 - 2015 Member of the Governing Council, The National Academy of Sciences, USA 2007 - 2010; 2014 - present Member, Scientific Advisory Board, The Simons Foundation Autism Research, USA 2014 - present Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Jury, New York, USA 2016 - present The Rockefeller University, Board of Trustees, New York City, New York, USA 2016 - present Rockefeller Archive Center, Board of Directors, New York City, New York, USA 2016 - present New York Genome Center, Board of Directors, New York City, New York, USA Awards / Honors 1998: Homer Smith Award, American Society of Nephrology 1999: Novartis Award for Hypertension Research 2000: Pasarow Foundation, Medical Research Award 2001: Elected to National Academy of Sciences 2002: The Basic Research Prize, American Heart Association 2002: Elected to Institute of Medicine 2002: Richard Bright Award 2003: Roy O. Greep Award, The Endocrine Society 2006: Robert Tigerstedt Award, International Society of Hypertension 2007: Alfred Newton Richards Award, International Society of Nephrology 2008: Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences 2012: Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2014: Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences 2015: Arthur Kornberg and Paul Berg Lifetime Achievement Award in Biomedical Sciences, Stanford

Research Interest

Biomedical Sciences