Edward Richards

Ted Richards is originally from southern Connecticut. He attended Saint Anselm College where he completed his undergraduate study in biology, and he later received his Master’s degree in cell and molecular biology from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. . His Master’s study was completed under Dr. WT Godbey, a previous postdoctoral fellow of Harvard Medical School. Prior to coming to HMS he performed research at Brown, Yale, and Tulane, most of which has concentrated in the area of cancer therapeutics, specifically gene delivery systems. Currently, his research utilizes RNAi technology to silence mutated oncogenic pathways associated with uncontrollable cell proliferation via signaling from members of the receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) family.