Richard Alan Lerner, M.D.

 
-President, The Scripps Research Institute

-Lita Annenberg Hazen Professor of Immunochemistry

-Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Chair in Chemistry
 
Education:
B.S. (1959) – Northwestern University
M.D. (1964) – Stanford University Medical School
Internship (1965) – Palo Alto Stanford Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellowship – Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation

Bio:
Richard A. Lerner’s 40-year scientific career is significant not only for the broad scope of his achievements, but for his leadership as President of The Scripps Research Institute, the country’s largest private, non-profit biomedical research organization. The accomplishment for which he is perhaps most well know is the groundbreaking work of converting antibodies into enzymes, permitting the catalysis of chemical reactions considered impossible to achieve by classical chemical procedures.

A member of the National Academy of Sciences and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Dr. Lerner graduated from Northwestern University and Stanford Medical School. He interned at Palo Alto Stanford Hospital and received postdoctoral training at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation. Since 1970 he has held staff appointments at Wistar Institute in Philadelphia and at The Scripps Research Institute. He assumed the presidency of TSRI in 1986.

Doctor Lerner has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Parke Davis Award, San Marino Prize, Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, CIBA-GEIGY Drew Award in Biomedical Research, Humboldt Research Award, Wolf Prize in Chemistry, California Scientist of the Year Award, Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology, the Windaus-Medial/Award, President’s Medal, University of California, Paul Ehrlich-and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, Frankfurt, Germany, AAAS Fellow, DART/NYU Biotechnology Achievement Award in Basic Biotechnology, New York, NY, Distinguished Visiting Scientist at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York and Honorary Doctorate of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Honorary Doctorate of Science Award, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Doctor of Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, Honorary Doctorate Degree, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom.