Curriculum Vitae
Richard Robert Bennett
Address
501 Lexington Street, Unit 36
Waltham, MA 02452
(781)-893-9107 (home, after 6 p.m. EST)
(617)-355-4764 (work)
bennett@enders.tch.harvard.edu
Education
1971 Northeaster University, Electrical Engineering
1986 Clark University, MBA, Business Administration
2006 Harvard Extension School E1A and E1B General Chemistry
2007 Harvard Extension School E2A Organic Chemistry
2008 Harvard Extension School E40 Intro to Proteomics
Employment Experience
1966 – 1992
Hardware Design Engineer, Adage Inc. Boston, MA
1972 – 1992
Hardware Design Engineer, Senior Design Engineering Manager, Digital Equipment
Corp. Maynard, MA
1992 – 2002
Director Molecular Genetics Core Facility, Division of Genetics, Children’s Hospital
Boston, Boston, MA
2002 – Present
Research Technician II, Kunkel Lab, Program in Genomics and Division of Genetics,
Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, 2002-Present
Selected peer-reviewed publications (in chronological order)
1. Khurana TS, Engle EC, Bennett RR, Silverman GA, Selig S, Bruns GA, Kunkel LM. (CA) repeat
polymorphism in the chromosome 18 encoded dystrophin-like protein. Hum Mol Genet 1994; 3(5):841.
2. Bennett RR, den Dunnen J, O’Brien KF, Darras BT, Kunkel LM. Detection of mutations in the dystrophin
gene via automated DHPLC screening and direct sequencing. BMC Genet 2001; 2(1):17.
3. Gussoni E, Bennett RR, Muskiewicz KR, Meyerrose T, Nolta JA, Gilgoff I, Stein J, Chan YM, Lidov HG,
Bonnemann CG, Von Moers A, Morris GE, Den Dunnen JT, Chamberlain JS, Kunkel LM, Weinberg K.
Long-term persistence of donor nuclei in a Duchenne muscular dystrophy patient receiving bone marrow
transplantation. J Clin Invest 2002; 110(6):807-14.
4. Haslett JN, Sanoudou D, Kho AT, Bennett RR, Greenberg SA, Kohane IS, Beggs AH, Kunkel LM. Gene
expression comparison of biopsies from Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and normal skeletal muscle.
PNAS 2002; 99(23):15000-5.
5. Haslett JN, Sanoudou D, Kho AT, Han M, Bennett RR, Kohane IS, Beggs AH, Kunkel LM. Gene
expression profiling of Duchenne muscular dystrophy skeletal muscle. Neurogenetics 2003; 4(4):163-71.
6. Kunkel LM, Bachrach E, Bennett RR, Guyon J, Steffen L. Diagnosis and cell-based therapy for Duchenne
muscular dystrophy in humans, mice and zebrafish. Journal of human genetics 51(5):397-406 2006
Professional Society Memberships
1968 – 1992 IEEE Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers
1994 – 2006 American Society of Human Genetics