Richie is a chemist, bioengineer, and neurotechnologist with expertise in creating and leading high risk/high reward research initiatives. As the former CSO of the Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering, he built a new research division focused on bioengineering approaches for neuroregeneration. At Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, he led the Synthetic Biology Platform and oversaw projects in nucleic acid synthesis, in situ sequencing, reproductive biotechnology, stem cell engineering, and anti-aging. He also co-led the IARPA MICrONS project, one of the world’s largest brain mapping efforts to date. Richie has spent much of career researching at the interface between chemistry and biology, and his largest goal is to reverse engineering the brain and develop scalable methods for the high resolution mapping of brain structure and function.
