Paul Harris received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in Biochemistry and Medical Biophysics, his PhD in Cell Biology from Cornell University, and did Postdoctoral training in peptide chemistry at The Rockefeller University. He was a faculty member at the health sciences campus of Columbia University since 1988, most recently as an Associate Professor in Medical Science (in Medicine) in the medical school. Dr Harris’ research efforts spanning 1990 to 2010 were instrumental in defining the structure of MHC bound peptides and dendritic cell therapy.  Studies he co-authored provided the foundations for current vaccine design strategies.