Richard Scheller

Who is Richard Scheller?

Richard Scheller is executive vice president, Research.

In this role he is responsible for setting strategy for Genentech's

research and drug discovery activities. He also serves on Genentech's

Research Review Committee, Product Portfolio Committee and Capital

Governance Committee. Scheller is a member of Genentech's executive

committee.

Scheller joined Genentech in 2001

as senior vice president, Research and was promoted to executive vice

president, Research in September 2003.

Prior

to joining Genentech, Scheller was appointed to the esteemed position

of professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology and Biological

Sciences in 1993 and as an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical

Institute in 1994. Scheller received his first academic appointment to

Stanford University in 1982.

Scheller's work

has earned him numerous awards, including the 1997 National Academy of

Sciences Award in Molecular Biology. He is a member of the Academy of

Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, and has served

on numerous advisory boards, including the National Advisory Mental

Health Council of the National Institutes of Health. He has published

more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

He

received his Bachelor of Science in biochemistry at the University of

Wisconsin, Madison and was awarded his doctorate in chemistry from the

California Institute of Technology where he was also a postdoctoral

fellow, Division of Biology. Scheller was also a postdoctoral fellow at

Columbia University, College of Physicians Surgeons.