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Isaac S. Harris, Ph.D.

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Office: (585) 273-4353

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University of Rochester Medical Center
School of Medicine and Dentistry
601 Elmwood Ave, Box 633
Rochester, NY 14642

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Biography

Professional Background

Born in the Great White North of Canada, Isaac received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Toronto and conducted research in the lab of Dr. Tak Mak at Princess Margaret Cancer Center. Afterwards, he joined the lab of Dr. Joan Brugge at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Recently, Isaac moved to Rochester, NY to open his independent lab at the University of Rochester/Wilmot Cancer Institute.

Research

There has been a long-standing belief that supplementation with antioxidants could prevent or treat cancer. However, results of large-scale clinical trials have proven the opposite: supplementation with antioxidants promote, rather than prevent, cancer. The Harris Lab at the University of Rochester Medical Center and Wilmot Cancer Institute focuses on uncovering the various roles of antioxidants in cancer by using in vivo mouse modeling approaches and high-throughput pharmacologic screening techniques.

Publications

Journal Articles

10/1/2019
Harris IS, Brugge JS. "United They Stand, Divided They Fall." Cell metabolism.. 2019 Oct 1; 30(4):624-625.

5/7/2019
Harris IS, Endress JE, Coloff JL, Selfors LM, McBrayer SK, Rosenbluth JM, Takahashi N, Dhakal S, Koduri V, Oser MG, Schauer NJ, Doherty LM, Hong AL, Kang YP, Younger ST, Doench JG, Hahn WC, Buhrlage SJ, DeNicola GM, Kaelin WG, Brugge JS. "Deubiquitinases Maintain Protein Homeostasis and Survival of Cancer Cells upon Glutathione Depletion." Cell metabolism.. 2019 May 7; 29(5):1166-1181.e6. Epub 2019 Feb 21.

7/3/2018
Lee JJ, van de Ven RAH, Zaganjor E, Ng MR, Barakat A, Demmers JJPG, Finley LWS, Gonzalez Herrera KN, Hung YP, Harris IS, Jeong SM, Danuser G, McAllister SS, Haigis MC. "Inhibition of epithelial cell migration and Src/FAK signaling by SIRT3." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.. 2018 Jul 3; 115(27):7057-7062. Epub 2018 Jun 18.

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