Richard A. Young

Dr. Richard A. Young is currently a member of the Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research and a Professor of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His interest lies in mapping the regulatory circuitry that controls cell state and differentiation in mice and humans. In particular, his group uses experimental and computational technologies to determine how signaling pathways, transcription factors, chromatin regulators and small RNAs control gene expression programs in embryonic stem cells and differentiated cells. His lab has developed powerful genomics methods to map how protein regulators control gene expression programs in healthy and diseased cells.

Dr. Young was recognized in 2006 as being one of the top 50 leaders in science, technology and business by Scientific American.