Richard Hite

Richard Hite is an assistant member in the Structural Biology Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where his lab characterizes the molecular mechanisms that control ion channel function. Richard received his Ph.D. in 2010 in the laboratory of Thomas Walz, Ph.D., at Harvard Medical School where he used electron crystallography of aquaporin-0 two-dimensional crystals to analyze the structural basis of annular lipid-protein interactions at high resolution. Richard performed his postdoctoral studies in laboratory of Roderick MacKinnon, M.D., at Rockefeller University, where he used single-particle cryo-electron microscopy, X-ray crystallography and electrophysiological approaches to study ligand- and voltage-gated potassium channels.