Rick Livesey is a Senior Group Leader, a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator, and founding director of the Alzheimer’s Research UK Stem Cell Research Centre at the Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, where he is also a fellow of Trinity College. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Cambridge in 2001, Livesey was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellow in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. He graduated from the University of Cambridge M.D./Ph.D. program in 1997, carrying out his Ph.D. at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology.