Kristy L. Richards BS, MD, PhD

Kristy Richards is a medical oncologist who specializes in treating lymphoma patients, and her laboratory focuses on finding new and better ways to treat lymphoma. She is an associate professor with a joint appointment in the Division of Hematology/Medical Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine and the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Richards earned her undergraduate degree from Cornell University, followed by a Ph.D. in genetics and an M.D., both from Stanford University. She did her residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and completed a hematology/oncology fellowship at the MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Dr. Richards co-directs the Cross-Campus Experimental Therapeutics Program at Cornell. Her research interests include genetic and genomic approaches to understanding lymphoma biology. Her lab is using genomic strategies to characterize a canine model of lymphoma in pet dogs that could be used to provide a more representative animal model for therapeutic trials. She is also involved in clinical trials that focus on improved therapeutic strategies for lymphoma patients.