Felix Richter, MD, PhD

Felix Richter is a current MD/PhD student in the Genetics and Datascience multidisciplinary training area at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Felix is a member of the Gelb and Schadt labs where he focuses on the role of noncoding genetic variants in congenital heart disease. He identified a role for noncoding de novo variants using HeartENN, an extension of the DeepSEA neural network algorithm. He developed software (ORE) to associated gene expression outliers with rare variants, which he is applying to both congenital heart disease and Alzheimer Disease.

Felix graduated from Northwestern University in 2013 with a BA in Integrated Science, Biological Sciences, and Chemistry.

Undergraduate award: Honors thesis (Synthesis, stabilization, and biological applications of magnetic nanostructures in cancer theranostics; Vinayak P. Dravid, PhD, Gayle Woloschak, PhD), Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa. 2009-2013. Conference and Travel Grant for the American Chemical Society’s 244th National Meeting, Division of Medicinal Chemistry, Katherine L. Krieghbaum Scholar Research Fellowship, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center REU Grant, Chemistry of Life Processes Undergraduate Research Grant, Cancer Center for Nanotechnology Excellence REU Grant, American Cancer Society Research Fellowship. Undergraduate Scholarships, 2009-2013, totaling $203,000. Franklin N. and Lee L. Corbin Scholarship, Northwestern University National Merit, Ruby E. and Charles A. Howles Scholarship, J. G. Nolan Scholarship, Federal Pell Gran

Graduate awards: ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Trainee Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Research – Finalist (2017) and Semifinalist (2018) both with platform talks; Traineeship, NIDCR- Systems and Developmental Biology and Birth Defects T32HD075735; Global health grant to Jamkhed, India; Mount Sinai Child Health Research Day, Poster 1st Place (2017); Mindich Child Health Development Institute retreat oral presentation 1st Place (2018)

Teaching and community service: Wikiproject:Medicine president, instructor and co-founder (2014+), East Harlem student-run free clinic senior clinician (2015+), biomedical software engineering TA (2017-2018), scientific programming in python TA (2017-2018), CREED Bioinformatics bootcamp instructor (2017, 2018), Mindich Child Health Development Institute trainee leadership committee (2016-2019), MD-PhD Admissions Interviewer (2014-2019), Manhattan School of Career Development mentor (2016+), Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (2009-2013)