Richard Alan Lerner was an American research chemist.
19 Facts About Richard Lerner
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Richard Lerner was best known for his work on catalytic antibodies and combinatorial antibody libraries.
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Richard Lerner grew up on the South Side of Chicago and excelled at chemistry and wrestling as a schoolboy.
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In 1991, when the TSRI was established as a nonprofit entity, Richard Lerner became its first president.
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Richard Lerner was one of the pioneers in developing the field of combinatorial libraries, and in 1992, together with Sydney Brenner, he published a sentinel paper launching the field of DNA-encoded libraries.
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In 1967 Richard Lerner discovered the role of anti-GBM antibodies in the pathogenesis of Goodpasture's disease.
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Richard Lerner has been the recipient of over 29 honors and prizes.
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Richard Lerner was the Myron L Bender and Muriel S Bender Summer Lecturer at Northwestern University in 1994 as well.
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Richard Lerner was awarded the California Scientist of the Year Award in 1996 and the University of California Presidential Medal in 2002.
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Richard Lerner has been elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the United States National Academy of Sciences.
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Richard Lerner shared the 2012 Prince of Asturis award, that is often called the Spanish Nobel Prize, with Sir Gregory Winter for Professor Pieczenik's conception and their development of combinatorial antibody libraries.
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Richard Lerner oversaw the establishment of a sister research campus, called Scripps Florida, in Palm Beach County.
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In 2006, Richard Lerner announced that he intended to "return to full-time research in [his] laboratory" in five years.
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Richard Lerner officially stepped down on January 1,2012, having led the Institute for 25 years.
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When he was Scripps Research Institute president, in 2005 Richard Lerner's salary was US$1,212,071, placing among the top ten percent of nonprofit executives in the USA.
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Richard Lerner served on the boards of six for-profit and nonprofit companies, including Kraft Foods, advised four other companies and two venture capital funds.
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Richard Lerner has declined to reveal the sum of his earnings, but acknowledged he earned $8.5 million for his part in the discovery of Humira.
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Richard Lerner has three adult children; Danica, Arik and Aaron by a previous marriage to Diana Pickett, a psychotherapist.
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Richard Lerner died on December 2,2021, at the age of 83 in his home in La Jolla.