HealthMaker: Joseph DeRisi

Listen to an interview with Joseph DeRisi from the Sharecare HealthMakers collection.
Joe DeRisi, PhD, is a pioneer in genetic research techniques to understand the behavior of malaria and further prevention and treatment.

He discusses the ethical issues of biomedical and genetic research.

Additional Info

  • Segment Number: 4
  • Audio File: sharecare/1510sc2d.mp3
  • Featured Speaker: Joseph DeRisi, PhD
  • Guest Bio: DeRisi HeadshotJoseph DeRisi is an American biochemist, specializing in molecular biology, parasitology, genomics, virology and computational biology. Joseph DeRisi is currently a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco with a joint appointment at the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences. He received a B.A. in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Stanford University.
  • Length (mins): 10
  • Waiver Received: No
  • Host: Darria Long Gillespie, MD, MBA