Darrell O. Ricke

Dr. Darrell O. Ricke is a technical staff member in the Artificial Intelligence Technology Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. His research pursuits include human diseases, infectious diseases, bioinformatics/computational biology, and solutions development including machine learning approaches with a focus on problem solving and innovation. Ricke has recently published SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 research on clinical treatment, early cardiac pathology, thrombocytopenia, etiology of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children and adults, COVID arm, COVID toes, COVID tongue, antibody dependent enhancement, and etiology of Kawasaki Disease. Ricke's DNA forensics solutions were a 2018 R&D 100 winner and a 2021 R&D 100 finalist, as well as a 2018 MIT Lincoln Laboratory Best Invention.

Prior to joining Lincoln Laboratory in 2011, Ricke's research included analyzing and annotating 12 million bases of the human genome and the entire genomes for rice and four fungal plant pathogens, as well as anthrax toxin plasmids PX01 and PX02. He also discovered the human disease gene for Familial Mediterranean Fever and conducted other projects. Ricke received a PhD degree in molecular biology from the Mayo Graduate School, a BS degree in genetics and cell biology and BS and MS degrees in computer science from the University of Minnesota.