“Dr. Michael Harris, currently Professor of Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve College of Medicine and Professor of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University, will be joining the faculty of the Department of Chemistry in January, 2016, as Professor of Chemistry in the general area of biochemistry and chemical biology. Professor Harris is recognized as a world leader in the areas of RNA biochemistry, high-throughput biochemistry assay development, including a focus on RNA targets in cancer. He approaches these problems in a highly interdisciplinary manner, combining a wide range of computational and experimental methods. We welcome Professor Harris as an esteemed new member of our faculty.”