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D-Index
67
Citations
12816
World Ranking
7084
National Ranking
2105

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1978 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS)
  • 1970 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Charles B. Harris was affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spanned multiple fields primarily focused on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Harris contributed to numerous studies with a particular emphasis on subfields including molecular biology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, computational theory and mathematics, physiology, and materials chemistry.

The main topics of their work encompassed:

  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Diabetes Treatment and Management
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Harris included:

  • Píetro Lió
  • Arian R. Jamasb
  • Tom L. Blundell
  • Axel Haupt
  • Yuanqi Du

Harris published regularly in various scientific venues, with the most frequent being:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Microscopy and Microanalysis
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Medicine
  • Nature Machine Intelligence

Their recent publications include:

  • Triple hormone receptor agonist retatrutide for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: a randomized phase 2a trial (2024, Nature Medicine)
  • Structure-based Drug Design with Equivariant Diffusion Models (2022, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • Machine learning-aided generative molecular design (2024, Nature Machine Intelligence)
  • Structure-based drug design with equivariant diffusion models (2024, Nature Computational Science)
  • Body composition changes during weight reduction with tirzepatide in the SURMOUNT -1 study of adults with obesity or overweight (2025, Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism)

Throughout their career, Harris received a number of honors including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2002)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2001)
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) (1978)
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1970)

Best Publications

  • Mononuclear and Polynuclear Chemistry of Rhenium (III): Its Pronounced Homophilicity

    F. A. Cotton;N. F. Curtis;C. B. Harris;B. F. G. Johnson

  • The Nature of Simple Photodissociation Reactions in Liquids on Ultrafast Time Scales

    A. L. Harris;J. K. Brown;C. B. Harris

  • The Mechanism of a C-H Bond Activation Reaction in Room-Temperature Alkane Solution

    Steven E. Bromberg;Steven E. Bromberg;Haw Yang;Haw Yang;Matthew C. Asplund;Matthew C. Asplund;T. Lian;T. Lian

  • Direct observation of fast proton transfer: femtosecond photophysics of 3-hydroxyflavone

    Benjamin J. Schwartz;Linda A. Peteanu;Charles B. Harris

  • The origin of vibrational dephasing of polyatomic molecules in condensed phases

    R. M. Shelby;C. B. Harris;P. A. Cornelius

  • Femtosecond dynamics of electron localization at interfaces

    N.-H. Ge;C. M. Wong;R. L. Lingle;J. D. McNeill

  • EFFECTS OF ENERGY EXCHANGE ON VIBRATIONAL DEPHASING TIMES IN RAMAN SCATTERING

    C. B. Harris;R. M. Shelby;P. A. Cornelius

  • Femtosecond dynamics of electrons on surfaces and at interfaces.

    C. B. Harris;N.-H. Ge;R. L. Lingle;J. D. McNeill

  • Electronic energy transfer to metal surfaces: a test of classical image dipole theory at short distances

    A. Campion;A.R. Gallo;C.B. Harris;H.J. Robota

  • Nonradiative damping of molecular electronic excited states by metal surfaces

    D.H. Waldeck;A.P. Alivisatos;C.B. Harris

  • Vibrational relaxation of diatomic molecules in liquids

    Charles B. Harris;David E. Smith;Daniel J. Russell

  • Determining transition-state geometries in liquids using 2D-IR.

    James F. Cahoon;Karma R. Sawyer;Jacob P. Schlegel;Charles B. Harris

  • Spectroscopic elucidation of energy transfer in hybrid inorganic–biological organisms for solar-to-chemical production

    Nikolay Kornienko;Kelsey K. Sakimoto;David M. Herlihy;Son C. Nguyen

  • Ultrafast Studies of Photochromic Spiropyrans in Solution

    Jin Z. Zhang;Benjamin J. Schwartz;Jason C. King;Charles B. Harris

  • The Crystal and Molecular Structure of Dipotassium Octachlorodirhenate(III) Dihydrate, K2[Re2Cl8]2H2O

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  • Torsional dynamics of molecules on barrierless potentials in liquids. I. Temperature and wavelength dependent picosecond studies of triphenyl‐methane dyes

    Dor Ben‐Amotz;C. B. Harris

  • Time- and angle-resolved two-photon photoemission studies of electron localization and solvation at interfaces

    P. Szymanski;P. Szymanski;S. Garrett-Roe;S. Garrett-Roe;C.B. Harris;C.B. Harris

  • Studies of chemical reactivity in the condensed phase. I. The dynamics of iodine photodissociation and recombination on a picosecond time scale and comparison to theories for chemical reactions in solution

    A. L. Harris;M. Berg;C. B. Harris

  • Femtosecond Infrared Studies of the Dissociation and Dynamics of Transition Metal Carbonyls in Solution

    Tianquan Lian;Steven E. Bromberg;Matthew C. Asplund;Haw Yang

  • Electron solvation in two dimensions.

    A. D. Miller;I. Bezel;K. J. Gaffney;S. Garrett-Roe

  • Direct femtosecond measurements of single collision dominated geminate recombination times of small molecules in liquids

    Benjamin J. Schwartz;Jason C. King;Jin Z. Zhang;Charles B. Harris

Frequent Co-Authors

Kelly J. Gaffney
Kelly J. Gaffney SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Steven M. George
Steven M. George University of Colorado Boulder
Benjamin J. Schwartz
Benjamin J. Schwartz University of California, Los Angeles
Jin Z. Zhang
Jin Z. Zhang University of California, Santa Cruz
Michael D. Fayer
Michael D. Fayer Stanford University
Tianquan Lian
Tianquan Lian Emory University
Heinz Frei
Heinz Frei Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Robert G. Bergman
Robert G. Bergman University of California, Berkeley
Kasper Moth-Poulsen
Kasper Moth-Poulsen Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
K. Peter C. Vollhardt
K. Peter C. Vollhardt University of California, Berkeley

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