Richard Scheller

Quick Facts

Full Name	Richard Scheller
Occupation	Biochemist
Date Of Birth	Oct 30, 1953(1953-10-30)
Age	71
Birthplace	Milwaukee
Country	United States
Birth City	Wisconsin
Horoscope	Libra

Richard Scheller Biography

Richard Scheller is one of the most popular and richest Biochemist who was born on October 30, 1953 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Richard H. Scheller, who was born 30 October 1953, is the Chief Scientist Officer & Head for Therapeutics at 23andMe and a former Executive Vice President for Research and Early Development at Genentech. Before joining Genentech, he was a professor at Stanford University from 1982 through 2001. He was awarded the Alan T. Waterman Award in 1989 and the W. Alden Spencer Award in Molecular Biology in 1993. In 1997, he won the NAS Award in Molecular Biology. In 2013, he won the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience in Neuroscience along with James E. Rothman and Thomas C. Sudhof. He also received the University of Wisconsin-Madison Life Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award. He is a Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Member of National Academy of Sciences.

He received his B.S. He received his B.S. in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in chemistry under the direction of Eric H. Davidson. As a graduate student, he collaborated with Keiichi Andakura and Arthur Riggs in order to synthesize Somatostatin at Genentech. After completing his graduate studies, he worked briefly with Davidson and then with Eric Kandel at Columbia University. He continued his work with recombinantDNA to identify the egg-layinghormone (ELH) family of neuropeptides while at Columbia.

He was recruited by Genentech from Stanford in 2001 to replace Dennis Henner as Senior Vice President and Chief Researchers Officer. He was appointed Chief Scientific Officer and Executive Vice-President of Research in 2008. He was named Head of Genentech Research and Early Development after the acquisition by Roche. He is also a member the Roche Corporate Executive Committee. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the University of California San Francisco.

Richard Scheller Net Worth

Richard Scheller is one of the richest Biochemist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Richard Scheller 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Richard Scheller is well-known as an enthusiastic collector and expert of historical and traditional African Art since the 1980s. Tribal Arts Magazine published an article on his passion for African Art. Some of his extensive collection was also displayed and published in the 2015 exhibition “Embodiments” at San Francisco’s De Young Museum.

Richard joined Stanford University’s faculty in 1982 as a member of the Department of Biological Sciences. Later, he was a member of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology. From 1990 to 2001, he was an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was an investigator at Stanford and cloned and identified proteins that regulate neurotransmitter release, including those in the Syntaxin transport protein family, Rab GTPases and SNAREs.

In March 2015, Richard joined 23andMe as the Chief Scientific Officer and Head of Therapeutics, creating and leading their Therapeutics team, which translates genetic data into discovery and development of new drug therapies.

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Richard Ranked on the list of most popular Biochemist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Richard Scheller celebrates birthday on October 30 of every year.