Richelle Cutler Strom was born in Patchogue, New York on March 3, 1969. 
    She graduated from Perry High School in June 1987. In 1992, Richelle 
    received a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from 
    University of Maryland Baltimore County. In August 1993 she entered the 
    graduate program in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at the 
    University of Tennessee at Memphis. She performed graduate studies at the 
    University of Tennessee under the tutelage of Dr. Robert Williams.
    She is presently employed in a postdoctoral position at the Johns Hopkins 
    Wilmer Eye Institute.