Richard Myers

Dr. Richard H. Myers is Emeritus Professor of Neurology at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine at Boston University. Dr. Myers has had a long-standing interest in Huntington’s disease and has participated in a wide range of research investigations into this disease.

He has been a member of the New England Huntington’s Disease “Center Without Walls” since its inception in 1980. His HD studies are best characterized as ‘Neurobiological Studies’ in that they include studies into the mechanisms of disease expression, including complex genetic modifier studies and a series of neuropathological studies of effects of disease expression in the brain. Dr. Myers has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles, 38 individual NIH-funded grants.