Richard Warren Aldrich is an American neuroscientist who is currently the Karl Folkers Chair of Interdisciplinary Medical Research and Professor of Neurobiology in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Texas.
Graduating from the University of Arizona with a BS in Biological Sciences (1975), Aldrich went on to earn a Ph.
[1] After completing a post-doctoral fellowship in physiology at Yale University under the direction of W. Knox Chandler and Charles F. Stevens,[2] Aldrich was hired to teach at Yale, instructing in the Department of Molecular Neurobiology.
[1] In 1985, Aldrich returned to Stanford to teach neurobiology and physiology, eventually serving as Chair of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology from 2001 to 2004.
[2] Aldrich's research has focused on the "molecular mechanisms of ion channel function and their role in electrical signaling.