Harry Higgs

Professor Henry (Harry) Higgs grew up in Pennsylvania.  He obtained his undergraduate degree in Biology from Lafayette College, but also spent full years at Penn State University and at Cambridge University (Corpus Christi College) as an undergraduate.  After graduation, Harry worked as a laboratory technician in the Laboratories of Reproductive Biology at UNC-Chapel Hill for one year, followed by two years as a laboratory technician at the Laboratoire de Genetique Moleculaire des Eucaryotes (LGME) in Strasbourg, France.  From 1990 to 1996, Harry did his PhD in John Glomset's lab in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Washington.  From 1997 to 2001, Harry conducted post-doctoral research with Tom Pollard at the Salk Institute in San Diego.  He started is own lab as an Assistant Professor at Dartmouth in 2001, and has happily been at Dartmouth ever since.  

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For a more personal account of Harry's scientific history, please see an article published in Current Biology in 2023 (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.04.040)