He made DNA extraction technology for a company in Cambridge,[2] then found a postdoctoral position at Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) working six years for Murray Stewart.[2] Grant then worked as a cell biologist for three years in Sydney, where the University asked him to write a science blog.[2] Grant then took a job with Faculty of 1000,[3][4] in the UK, rebuilding a website and writing for The Scientist, and later became a Senior Writer at a London medical education & publishing agency.[2] Grant is deputy editor of the webzine LabLit.com and Jennifer Rohn is the editor.[5][6] Grant and Rohn campaigned for Science is Vital, against cuts to the public funding of science in the United Kingdom.[7][8][2][9]
^"People". Lab Lit. Retrieved 9 December 2021. Richard P. Grant is our Deputy Editor. A British molecular cell biologist and structural biochemist, he now specializes in strategic content at a pharma comms agency in London. He writes fiction under the pseudonym 'rpg' and tweets as @rpg7twit. In addition to helping to steer LabLit's editorial direction, he helps edit fiction and poetry. He blogs at Confessions of a (Former) Lab Rat on Occam's Typewriter.
