Richard E. McCarty is the William D. Gill Professor of Biology at

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. He also served as Dean of The Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences for several years. In addition to lecturing in the Biology Department, McCarty oversees a research laboratory, in which graduate and

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students, and post-doctoral fellows conduct various plant biochemistry-related research. He received his B.A. degree from Johns Hopkins, as well as his Ph.D. degree. He has published dozens of scientific papers about his

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research, and is on the review board of several scientific journals as well. McCarty is the son of

Maclyn McCarty Maclyn McCarty (June 9, 1911 – January 2, 2005) was an American geneticist, a research scientist described in 2005 as "the last surviving member of a Manhattan scientific team that overturned medical dogma in the 1940s and became the first to ...

, American geneticist who found that the genetic material of living cells is composed of

DNA Deoxyribonucleic acid (; DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix. The polymer carries genetic instructions for the development, functioning, growth and reproduction of al ...

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