Harris Lewin
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| Harris Lewin | |
|---|---|
| Awards | Wolf Prize in Agriculture |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of California, Davis |
| Thesis year | 1984 |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Illinois University of California, Davis |
| Main interests | biologist |
| Notable ideas | genomics and immunogenetics |
Harris Lewin is an American biologist and vice-chancellor of research at the University of California, Davis. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.[1] In 2011, Lewin won the Wolf Prize in Agriculture for his research into cattle genomics.[1][2]
Career
Lewin studied at the University of California, Davis and earned his Ph.D in 1984. He then worked at the University of Illinois.[1] In 2003, he served as the founding director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.[3][2] In 2009, he and a team of researchers fully sequenced the cow genome.[2]
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