Prof. Richard Carthew Northwestern University, USA

Richard Carthew obtained his BSc in Biology from Queen's University, Canada. He then went on to study for a MSc in Botany at the University of Toronto. Under Philip Sharp, Prof. Carthew gained his PhD from MIT studying DNA-binding transcription factors. Following his PhD he did his postdoc at the... read moreUniversity of California at Berkeley under the supervision of Gerry Rubin, where he studied Drosophila development. In 1999 he joined the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently the Owen L. Coon Professor of Molecular Biology at Northwestern University, which he was awarded in 2004, having joined the institution in 2001.