Dr. Grant Richter is an early career postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for MND Research at Macquarie University, with a research focus on characterizing pathological MND-related proteins within living cells and developing drugs to treat MND.

He obtained his PhD from the University of Sydney, where he trained as an electrophysiologist and animal surgeon investigating rodent models of stroke. His dissertation, titled "GABA Drugs for Motor Recovery After Stroke," highlights some crucial differences in a drug’s efficacy between human clinical patients and mouse models of stroke.  His electrophysiology work produced significant findings that were published in a 2020 Frontiers in Neuroscience article. 

In 2022, Dr. Richter was recruited to the Morsch Lab at Macquarie University, where he began working with zebrafish – a model system he was first exposed to during his master’s studies in the Centre for Neuroregeneration at the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Richter excels in the cutting-edge techniques of live confocal microscopy of zebrafish motor neurons and advanced computer image analysis.