Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> November 1, 1999
ROBERT B. HARRIS, Ph.D., is President and co-Founder of Commonwealth
Biotechnologies, Inc. Since founding Commonwealth Biotechnologies, Inc.,
in 1992, Dr. Harris has served as the President and as a Director of the
company. Until 1997, Dr. Harris was employed in the Department of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Virginia Commonwealth
University, rising through the academic ranks to full Professor. Dr.
Harris received a joint Bachelor's degree in Chemistry and Biology from
the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, and the Master's and
Doctoral degrees from the New York University, in Biochemistry and
Biophysical Chemistry. Dr. Harris is the co-author of more than 75 peer
reviewed journal articles and book chapters, mostly in areas of his
research expertise: the role of macromolecular structure in biological
function. Dr. Harris is a former Established Investigator of the
American Heart Association, and is co-inventor of U.S. and foreign
patents. His married with two children. Profile
the company just to kind of set the stage for the readers?
Dr. Harris: We incorporated in 1992 as an S corporation. I had
