Richard P. Lifton is President & Trustee at The Rockefeller University and on the board of 5 other companies.

In his past career Dr. Lifton held the position of Chairman-Scientific Supervisory Board at CuraGen Corp., Member-Governing Council at National Academy of Sciences, Chief Medical Resident at The Brigham & Women's Hospital, Inc., Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Executive Director-Yale Centre for Genome Analysis at Yale School of Medicine.

He received an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, a doctorate from Stanford University and a doctorate from Stanford University.