Richard Gibbs, Ph.D.
Richard Gibbs, Ph.D., is the Woffard Cain Professor of molecular and human genetics and director of the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine.
Gibbs received a B.Sc. in 1979 and a Ph.D. in Genetics and Radiation Biology in 1986 at the University of Melbourne in Australia. He moved to Houston as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Baylor College of Medicine to study the molecular basis of human X-linked diseases and to develop technologies for rapid genetic analysis. During this period, he developed several fundamental technologies for nucleic acid analysis.
In 1991, he joined the faculty at BCM and played a key role in the early planning and development phases of the human genome project. In 1996, he established the Human Genome Sequencing Center when Baylor was chosen as one of six programs to complete the final phase of the human genome project.
The BCM-HGSC is an academic group in the department of molecular and human genetics at BCM.