Scholar Profile

Richard Ruan

Biotechnology

Biography

Richard Ruan is currently a Senior Associate Scientist at Alexion-AstraZeneca within their cardiovascular genomic medicines group. Prior to this, he worked on high-throughput cardiovascular disease target discovery at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, within the Ellinor Lab and its collaborations with Bayer and Novo Nordisk. Richard also directs the Neuro International Collaboration, an academic interest group writing on neurological-clinical research topics.

Richard studied at UC Berkeley as a Haas Scholar and Regents' and Chancellor's Scholar, majoring in Bioengineering with concentrations in Tissue Engineering and Computational Biology. He also completed a senior honors thesis on Dengue Virus and SARS-CoV-2 pathogeneses from the Harris Lab at UC Berkeley Public Health. He has also held prior research roles at UCSF Pulmonary Immunology, UCSF Brain Tumor Center, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, and USC Stem Cell.

Richard graduated as the valedictorian of West High School. He was an AP Scholar, a Presidential Service Gold Award recipient, a Torrance Youth Council member, an origami instructor, a Boys State representative, and President of his high school's Science Olympiad team, Math team, and Math Honor Society.

High school:  West High School

Degrees

News and Highlights

08/11/2021 Richard Ruan (MS '18)

Future Physician-Scientist: Congratulations to Richard Ruan, MS ‘18, for being selected as a Berkeley Haas Scholar for his academic and community achievements. Each year, twenty highly qualified, academically talented undergraduates with financial need are selected to come together to build a supportive intellectual community during their final year at UC Berkeley. As a Haas Scholar, Richard's senior year project will be identifying host factors critical for dengue virus NS1 and SARS-CoV-2 Spike pathogeneses. Congratulations again, Ruan! We are excited to see all that will emerge from your work!