Michael Harrington

M.B., Ch.B., F.R.C.P.

Mike Harrington joined HMRI and established the Molecular Neurology Program in 1998. He received his medical degree in 1976 from Glasgow University, Scotland, was awarded his membership into the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1979 and elected a Fellow in 1993. At Glasgow Royal Infirmary he completed his medical internship in 1977 and trained in internal medicine through 1979. His growing interest in neurological diseases led him to the Institute of Neurological Sciences at Glasgow where he trained in neurology and initiated 2D electrophoresis studies of spinal fluid proteins that were altered in diseases of the nervous system. He relocated to Bethesda, Maryland to continue this research full-time as a Visiting Fellow to the Laboratory of General and Comparative Biochemistry at the National Institute of Mental Health in 1983 and as a Visiting Associate at the Laboratory of Neurogenetics, NIMH. Moving in 1988 to the California Institute of Technology, first as a Senior Research Fellow and from 1990 as a Member of the Beckman Institute, he improved technologies for a variety of protein studies.