Richard Willson, Ph.D.

Richard Willson is Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Biochemistry, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Houston, where his research focuses on biomolecular recognition and its applications in separations and diagnostics (http://www.chee.uh.edu/faculty/willson/). He received his B.S. (honors) and M.S. from Caltech, and his Ph.D. from MIT, and was a postdoctoral fellow in the MIT department of Biology before joining the University of Houston. He is past-President of the ACS Division of Biochemical Technology and the International Society for Molecular Recognition, and founding CTO of Visigen Biotechnologies, an ultrafast DNA sequencing company. He is the recipient of a US Presidential Young Investigator Award and the ACS van Lanen Award, and is a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering.