Medicine
Date:
05/21/2015
MSI Principal Investigator Reuben Harris, a professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, has been selected to be a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator. His five-year term will begin in September. HHMI will provide financial support for Professor Harris’s research, which investigates enzymes called “APOBECs.” A story about this award appears in the University’s Discover blog.
Professor Harris uses MSI resources to conduct genomic investigations of APOBEC proteins and to study their role in cancer. He is also associate director of the Institute for Molecular Virology and a member of the Masonic Cancer Center.