Eva Harris is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, and the founder and president of the Sustainable Sciences Institute. Harris has been described as an “activist researcher” because she focuses her research efforts on combating diseases that primarily afflict people in developing nations.
Harris received a BA in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard University in 1987 and a PhD in Molecular ...
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Eva Harris is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, and the founder and president of the Sustainable Sciences Institute. Harris has been described as an “activist researcher” because she focuses her research efforts on combating diseases that primarily afflict people in developing nations.
Harris received a BA in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard University in 1987 and a PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1993.
After a post-doctoral fellowship and Assistant Adjunct Professorship at the University of California, San Francisco, Harris joined the faculty at UC Berkeley where Harris developed a multidisciplinary approach to study virology, pathogenesis, and epidemiology of dengue fever, the most prevalent mosquito-borne viral disease in humans. Harris’ lab studies the mechanism of dengue virus infection of human dendritic cells. The Harris Lab is also developing a mouse model to study...
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