Richard Olding Hynes was born on 29 November 1944 and is a British biologist, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and the Daniel K Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Richard Hynes's research focuses on cell adhesion and the interactions between cells and the extracellular matrix, with a particular interest in understanding molecular mechanisms of cancer metastasis.
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Richard Hynes is well known as a co-discoverer of fibronectin molecules, a discovery that has been listed by Thomson Scientific ScienceWatch as a Nobel Prize candidate.
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Richard Hynes worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund from 1971 to 1974.
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Richard Hynes was awarded Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator status in 1988.
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Richard Hynes served as the head of the biology department from 1989 to 1991 and as the director of the MIT Center for Cancer Research from 1991 to 2001, and became the Daniel K Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research and affiliated with the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research in 1999.
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Richard Hynes served as the president of the American Society for Cell Biology in 2000.
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Richard Hynes has been a member of the Board of Governors of the Wellcome Trust since 2007.
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Richard Hynes served on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2012.
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Richard Hynes has published on public policy and participated in the development of United States research guidelines for stem cell research, particularly embryonic stem cells.