Richard Priestley Lifton (born 1953) is an American

biochemist Biochemists are scientists who are trained in biochemistry. They study chemical processes and chemical transformations in living organisms. Biochemists study DNA, proteins and Cell (biology), cell parts. The word "biochemist" is a portmanteau of ...

who has been serving as the 11th and current president of

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since September 2016.

Education and career

He earned his B.A. in biological sciences from

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College ( ) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the America ...

and in 1986 he got his M.D. and Ph.D. in biochemistry from

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

. He trained at Brigham and Women's Hospital before starting his lab at Yale in 1993. He has been awarded the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences for his discovery of genes that are associated with the regulation of blood pressure. In 2014 he was awarded the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his work. He has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator since 1994. He was inducted into the

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and Institute of Medicine, and he is a Fellow of the

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is a United States–based international nonprofit with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsib ...

. In May 2016, Lifton was named the president of

. He succeeded Marc Tessier-Lavigne.

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HHMI bio

faculty bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lifton, Richard P. American biochemists 1953 births Howard Hughes Medical Investigators Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Presidents of Rockefeller University Yale School of Medicine faculty Yale Sterling Professors Living people Physician-scientists Members of the National Academy of Medicine

Education and career

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