Richard Ruan
BSc (Bioengineering)
Richard is currently a Research Associate in the Ellinor Lab of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, working as part of the Broad’s Cardiovascular Disease Initiative and collaboration with Bayer, and is aiming for medical school. He graduated as a Haas Scholar and Regents’ Scholar from the University of California, Berkeley, with a BSc in Bioengineering and a thesis on the ‘Identification of Critical Host Factors in DENV NS1 and SARS-CoV-2 Spike Pathogeneses’ from the Harris Lab. He has also been involved in research in a variety of fields including community-based hepatitis efforts, brain tumor microenvironment and immunotherapy, pulmonary immunology, and cardiovascular stem cell biology.