Randy John Read FRS[9] (born 9 June 1957)[4] is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and professor of protein crystallography at the University of Cambridge.

[1][10][11][12] Read was educated at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in 1979 followed by a PhD in 1986[4] for X-ray crystallography of serine proteases and their protein inhibitors supervised by Michael N. G.

[4] As of 2017[update], Read's research interests are in protein crystallography and maximum likelihood estimation.

Read was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014.

In addition, Professor Read has led structural work that has made significant contributions to understanding the mechanisms of proteins relevant to disease (bacterial toxins and serpins).