Richard P. Lifton
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| 11th President of Rockefeller University | |
| Assumed office September 1, 2016 (2016-09-01) | |
| Preceded by | Marc Tessier-Lavigne |
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| Born | 1953 (age 70–71) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College, Stanford University |
| Awards | Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences (2008), Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2014) |
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| Fields | Genetics |
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| Thesis | The organization and expression of the Drosophila melanogaster histone genes and interspersed mobile elements (1986) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Hogness |
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Richard Priestley Lifton (born 1953) is an American biochemist and the 11th and current president of The Rockefeller University.[1]
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.
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| Preceded by | President of Rockefeller University 2016 – present |
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