2020 John Harris

SPEAKER BIO

Dr. John Harris is a tenured Associate Professor of Dermatology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) in Worcester, MA. He serves as Director of the Vitiligo Clinic and Research Center at UMMS, focusing both on the clinical management of vitiligo patients as well as research into new therapeutic strategies. Dr. Harris is an alumnus of Gordon College, where he studied Biology with a Pre-Medicine concentration, graduating in 1998. As a result of his innovative work in the field of vitiligo treatment research, Dr. Harris acquired Series A funding to further develop a new treatment for vitiligo and founded Villaris Therapeutics, whose focus is to develop an effective, long-lasting treatment for vitiligo.