Joel Richter

Joel Richter is a Professor of Molecular Medicine and the Arthur F. Koskinas Professor in Neuroscience the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. He obtained his PhD from Arizona State University and performed postdoctoral work at Purdue University. Dr. Richter has studied mRNA translation and processing for over four decades, held a MERIT award from the NIH, and was the founding director of the UMass Medical School’s NIH Center for Collaborative Research on Fragile X. Dr. Richter currently studies the molecular biology of Fragile X Syndrome and other neurological disorders.