Richard H. Scheller

Richard H. Scheller (born 30 October 1953) is the Chief Science Officer & Head of Therapeutics at 23andMe and the former Executive Vice President of Research and Early Development at Genentech. He was a Professor at Stanford University from 1982 to 2001 before joining Genentech. He has been awarded the Alan T. Waterman Award in 1989, the W. Alden Spencer Award in 1993 and the NAS Award in Molecular Biology in 1997, won the 2010 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience with Thomas C. Südhof and James E. Rothman, and won the 2013 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research with Thomas Sudhof. He was also given the Life Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award from University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Awards

• 1989 – Alan T. Waterman Award
• 1993 – W. Alden Spencer Award
• 1997 – NAS Award in Molecular Biology
• 1997 – Life Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award from University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 2010 – Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
• 2013 – Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
• 2014 – Distinguished Alumni Award from California Institute of Technology
• 2015 – National Academies of Science
• 2015 – Fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

Personal life

He is married to Susan McConnell, a Professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford University and lives on Stanford Campus.

Richard H. Scheller is the former Chief Science Officer and Head of Therapeutics at 23andMe and the former Executive Vice President of Research and Early Development at Genentech. He was a Professor at Stanford University from 1982 to 2001 before joining Genentech. Wikipedia
Born: October 30, 1953 (age 69 years), Milwaukee, WI
Notable students: Mala Murthy, Marina Picciotto
Awards: Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, NAS Award in Molecular Biology
Academic advisors: Richard Axel, Eric Kandel, Eric H. Davidson
Education: Columbia University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, California Institute of Technology