Associate Director | Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Pharmacology | M. June & J. Virgil Waggoner Chair Emeritus in Molecular Biology

Adron Harris received his PhD in Pharmacology from the University of North Carolina in 1973 and conducted his postdoctoral work at the University of California at San Francisco. Dr. Harris served as President of the Research Society on Alcoholism from 1993-1995, and Director of the Alcoholism Research Center at the University of Colorado School of Medicine from 1992-1998. In 1998 he moved to The University of Texas and became became the Founding Director of the Waggoner Center in 1999. He was President of the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism from 2002-2006. Dr. Harris is author or co-author of more than 500 scientific articles which have been cited more than 30,000 times. He is the recipient of the 1999 Outstanding Researcher of the Year, 2010 Seixas Service and 2017 Marlatt Mentorship Awards from the Research Society on Alcoholism, and the 2004 Jellinek Memorial Award, an international prize given each year to the scientist who has made the greatest contribution to the understanding of alcoholism as a disease. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience, Pharmacology and Psychiatry.