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For 20 years Geoff Richards was a senior Research Director of the French CNRS. Although an entrance scholar in Chemistry to Queens’ College, Cambridge in 1969, he switched fields and completed a Ph.D in 1975 in Drosophila developmental cytogenetics with Michael Ashburner (Genetics Dept, Cambridge University). |
He moved to Strasbourg in 1980 to join Pierre Chambon’s laboratory and apply molecular techniques to his studies of the hormonal regulation of Drosophila development. He used P element transformation extensively for in vivo studies of gene regulation and, more recently, micro RT-PCR techniques to study multiple transcripts in individual staged/treated Drosophila tissues.
Prior to joining HFSP in 2004, he spent some 10 years in a dual role as both a group leader at the IGBMC and its Executive Secretary with the overall responsibility for national and international, academic and industrial research contracts including intellectual property issues.