Christina Harrington

Biography
After receiving her B.S. in Biology from California Institute of Technology, Christina Harrington earned her Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology from University of Colorado at Boulder in 1982. Upon completion of her Ph.D., Dr. Harrington worked as a Research Associate in the Neuroscience Program at Tufts University Medical School, followed by three years as a Staff Scientist at Cambridge Neuroscience, Inc., in Cambridge, MA. In 1990 she moved to England where she worked as a Staff Scientist at the National Institute for Medical Research and then as a Principal Research Fellow at the Wellcome Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology at University College in London. Prior to joining OHSU as the Manager of the Affymetrix Microarray Core, Dr. Harrington worked as a Senior Scientist and Manager at Affymetrix, Inc. She holds concurrent appointments in the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute and in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology.