David T Harris

Biography

Dr. Harris is a graduate of WakeForestUniversity in Winston-Salem, North Carolina where he obtained Bachelor of Science degrees (cum laude) in Biology, Mathematics and Psychology in 1978.  He earned a Masters of Medical Sciences (summa cum laude) from BowmanGrayMedicalSchool in 1980 and his Doctorate in Microbiology and Immunology (magna cum laude) from BowmanGrayMedicalSchool in 1982.  From 1982-1985 Dr. Harris was a Post-doctorate Fellow at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Lausanne, Switzerland.  In 1985 he joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine.  In 1989 Dr. Harris joined the faculty at the University of Arizona in Tucson as an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology.  In 1996 Dr. Harris was promoted to Professor of Immunology.  Dr. Harris established the first cord blood bank in the USA in 1992.  He currently serves as the Executive Director of the University of Arizona Biorepository, is a member of the Arizona Cancer Center, a member of the Children’s Research Center, and a member of the Arizona Arthritis Center.  Dr. Harris’s research interests include stem cells and regenerative medicine, cancer research/stem cell transplantation and gene therapy.  He has published more than 300 articles (papers, book chapters and abstracts), given more than 100 talks on stem cells over the past 10 years, and has served as a consultant to the governments of China, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea.  Dr. Harris has also founded 5 companies while at the University of Arizona; Cord Blood Registry, Inc.; ImmuneRegen BioSciences, Inc.; QuReGen, Inc., AdiCyte and Family Cryo Bank.

Degrees

• Ph.D. Microbiology and Immunology
• Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
• Modification of Susceptibility to Immune Cytolysis by Specific Alterations in Target Cell Phospholipid Composition
• M.S. Medical Sciences
• Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
• Spontaneous Hypertension in the Rat and Its Effects Upon the Auditory System
• B.S. Biology, Mathematics & Psychology
• Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States