The Office of Health Sciences Education, The Office for Continuous Professional Development and
the Academy for Excellence in Education
present
Contact
Mary Ann NicholsVanderbilt University
maryann.nichols@vanderbilt.edu
615-936-8510
Where
202 Light HallHealth Sciences Education Grand Rounds
"The Future of the Doctorate"
Robert Harris, PhD
Professor of Immunotherapy, Department of Clinical Neuroscience
Deputy Vice-President for Doctoral Education, Karolinska Institutet
President ORPHEUS
A boxed lunch will be provided for all registrants.
Please register below by Friday, October 5, 2018.
About Professor Harris:
Professor Robert A. Harris (Bob) was born in Harpenden in Southern UK in 1966. He conducted a Bsc.Hons undergraduate degree at Portsmouth Polytechnic, majoring in Parasitology in 1987. PhD studies at University College London studying innate immune agglutinins in Schistosoma host snail species with Terry Preston and Vaughan Southgate as supervisors culminated with a thesis defence in early 1991. A 2.5 year postdoc at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in Paul Kaye’s research group ensued, with focus on understanding the intracellular fate of Leishmania spp. protozoans in macrophages. Bob was awarded a Wellcome Trust postdoctoral fellowship that permitted his relocation to the Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden) in the spring of 1994. A postdoc period was spent split between the labs of Anders Örn and Tomas Olsson, in which he studied Trypanosoma cruzi and Trypanosoma bruceii protozoan proteins. Bob became an Associate Professor at the Karolinska Institute in 1999, heralding his establishment as a PI. Bob started to work with autoimmune diseases in 1996 and began study of therapy using live parasite infections or parasite molecules. His research group has developed autoantigen-specific vaccines, defined the effects of post-translational biochemical molecules on autoantigenicity and developed a macrophage adoptive transfer therapy that prevents pathogenesis in several experimental disease models. He became Professor of Immunotherapy in Neurological Diseases in 2013.
Professor of Immunotherapy in Neurological Diseases 2013-present
President of ORPHEUS doctoral education organization 2014-present
Central Director of Doctoral studies at Karolinska Institutet 2008-present
Director of Doctoral studies at Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Karolinska Institutet 2005-present
Awarded Karolinska Institutet’s Pedagogy Prize 2014
78 publications and 1 review – Web of Science h index = 21 Google Scholar H index = 29, i index = 60
Currently receives research funding from Swedish Medical research Council, AlzheimerFonden, CancerFonden, BarnCancerFonden and Karolinsk Institutet
Currently supervises 6 PhD students, co-supervises 5 PhD students, 1 Postdoctoral Fellow and one undergraduate student
CME Credit:
Sponsored by Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Office for Health Sciences Education, Educator Development Core, The Office for Continuous Development and the Academy for Excellence in Education.