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Kristina Harris

Kristina Harris PhD

Immunology and Microbiology
Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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Kristina M. Harris, PhD is the Director of the Biomarker & Discovery Research division at the Immune Tolerance Network (ITN) in Bethesda, MD. She serves as the scientific liaison to a network of core and specialized laboratories that design and perform cutting edge mechanistic assays under strict standard operating procedures. Her role provides oversight to the Biomarker & Discovery Research group to harmonize assessments across trials and therapeutic areas to identify common themes associated with immune tolerance. These assays are critical to the mission of the ITN, which is to advance the clinical application of immune tolerance by performing high-quality clinical trials of emerging therapeutics integrated with mechanism-based research. She is very satisfied working in this highly-matrixed organization and embraces new and exciting opportunities to advance the field of immunotherapy in collaboration with key opinion leaders around the globe.

Dr. Harris received her PhD in Molecular Medicine from University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2008. She completed her post-doctoral training under the mentorship of Drs. Dean Mann, Alessio Fasano, and Alan Cross and established herself as a translational researcher of immune mechanisms in human disease. Dr. Harris joined the ITN in 2013 to serve as the senior biologist responsible for mechanistic evaluation of the autoimmune portfolio, and served as the senior biologist for the allergy and asthma portfolio from 2014-2016. She was promoted to Director of Biomarker & Discovery Research in 2015, and continues to oversee mechanistic evaluation of the autoimmune portfolio.
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