Richard M. Myers (born March 24, 1954) is an American geneticist and biochemist known for his work on the Human Genome Project (HGP).

After that, Myers spent almost four years as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Tom Maniatis at Harvard University, where he studied human gene regulation.

On behalf of Maniatis, Myers attended a conference sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and the International Commission for Protection Against Environmental Mutagens and Carcinogens.

19 researchers, including Myers, met at an Alta, Utah ski resort In December 1984 with a challenge in mind.

The group explored how scientists might determine whether the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II increased the rate of mutations in the sperm or eggs of survivors.

[12]  Their laboratories worked together for 15 years, on multiple technologies for gene hunting, including radiation hybrid mapping, a method that uses high-energy x-rays to fragment human chromosomes that were recovered in somatic cell hybrids and then used to determine the locations of DNA markers in the human genome.

The lab also uses computational and statistical tools for identifying, characterizing and understanding how functional elements of the genome work together at the molecular level.