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Author: Richard P Grant

Richard Grant is our Deputy Editor. A British molecular cell biologist and structural biochemist, he is now Director of Scientific Strategy at a pharma comms agency in London. He writes fiction under the pseudonym 'rpg' and tweets as @rpg7twit. In addition to helping to steer LabLit's editorial direction, he helps edit fiction and poetry. He blogs at Confessions of a (Former) Lab Rat on Occam's Typewriter.

Chapter Seven: The Institute

Richard P Grant | 24 July 2020

Max sat on a bench, smoking his fifth cigarette of the morning and keeping his eyes fixed on the main entrance of the Wolfhaven Institute.

Chapter Six: The Retraction

Richard P Grant | 25 May 2020

Slater watched Brad leave the room. Even after the door had swung shut, anger shot through his veins.

Chapter Five: The Outlier

Richard P Grant | 6 October 2019

Slater could tell she was thinking furiously, recognizing she had said the wrong thing.

Chapter Four: The Postdoc

Richard P Grant | 26 July 2019

Brad stared at the printout in front of him. There it was again, that damned high molecular weight peak he had seen on both previous runs.

Chapter Three: The Party

Richard P Grant | 15 July 2019

Ah, these silly English men, Sabine thought as she drove down Long Road. They are so easily amused – it really wasn’t work at all. All she ever had to do was smile at them and they would do anything she asked.

Chapter Two: The Lab

Richard P Grant | 21 May 2019

Dr Bradley Jefferson Walker Pettier III was confused.

Chapter One: The Funeral

Richard P Grant | 7 May 2019

Professor Thomas Slater realized that it wasn’t going to be so difficult to be inconspicuous after all.

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