Richard Andrew Spritz MD

Summary

• Richard Spritz is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine; previously, he was Director of the Human Medical Genetics and Genomics Program. In the 1970s he was part of the team that characterized the first human genes and discovered the first human gene mutation, in beta-thalassemia. For over four decades his lab studied the molecular basis of human genetic diseases, including mapping, discovery, and mutational and functional analysis of many different human disease genes. He has received numerous awards for his research and has over 300 publications, on many different topics relating to genetic disorders and birth defects. Dr. Spritz received a B.S. in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an M.D. from Pennsylvania State University. He was Intern and Resident in Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Fellow in Human Genetics at the Yale University School of Medicine.