Professor Emeritus of Oncology
School of Medicine and Public Health l Department of Oncology
Hometown: Seattle WA
Richard prefers virtual talks.
Dr. Richard R. Burgess is James D. Watson Emeritus Prof. of Oncology at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research at UW–Madison. He founded the UW Biotechnology Center in 1984 and was its Director until 1996. He obtained his B.S. in Chemistry at Caltech in 1964 and his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology with James D. Watson at Harvard in 1969. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Geneva, Switzerland from 1969–71 and joined the faculty of the Dept. of Oncology at the UW–Madison in 1971. He was the recipient of the 1982 Pfizer Award and the 1999 Waksman Medal and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (2003), the AAAS in 2008, and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters in 2020. He plays an active role in translating basic university research into a growing Wisconsin biotechnology business community and in educating the public about biotechnology and proteins.
Talks:
- What is Biotechnology and How Might it Affect you?
- The Role of the University in Technology Transfer in Biotechnology
- How We Parlayed a Great Research University into 150 Local Biotechnology Companies
- Scientific and Artist Creativity — Are They Related?
- Protein Biochemistry — How We Purify and Study Proteins
- Immunoaffinity Chromatography — How We Use Monoclonal Antibodies to Gently Purify Proteins and Protein Complexes
- The Discovery of The First Positive Transcription Factor, Sigma Factor
- Rapid (1-second) Purification of Proteins to Study Weak Protein-Protein Interactions Using Magnetic Beads