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About Richard

Richard is an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University. As an undergraduate at Princeton, he worked with Eric Wieschaus on cell cycle control in the early Drosophila embryo. At Stanford, he earned a Ph.D. in Chemical and Systems Biology and trained in yeast genetics with Dan Jarosz, using large inbred crosses to fine‑map the DNA variants that give rise to complex traits. He then joined Jonathan Weissman’s lab for his postdoc, where he built CRISPR tools to identify unique species‑specific vulnerabilities in human and chimpanzee stem cells. Richard is a recipient of the Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship and NTU’s Nanyang Assistant Professorship. In his free time, he plays music, tries not to get injured while playing basketball and badminton, and enjoys cooking for friends.