Dr. R. Adron Harris has retired to Emeritus status and is no longer active in research. He joined UT Austin in 1998 and became the Founding Director of the Center in 1999. Dr. Harris has been a leading investigator of the molecular pharmacology of alcohol and related drugs and 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.