# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-lerner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:20:56.634Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-lerner"
name: "Richard Lerner"
slug: "richard-lerner"
description: "Richard Alan Lerner was an American research chemist. He was best known for his work on catalytic antibodies and combinatorial antibody libraries. Lerner served as President of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) from 1987 until January 1, 2012, and was a member of its Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, in La Jolla, California."
tagline: "American chemist (1938–2021)"
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birthDate: "1938-08-26"
deathDate: "2021-12-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump