Harriet L Robinson

Harriet Latham Robinson is an American vaccine researcher who is founder and Chief Scientific Officer Emeritus at GeoVax. She is the former Chief of Microbiology and Immunology at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Microbiology at Emory University. Her research considered HIV vaccine development. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Early life and education Robinson (née Latham) born in 1938, was an undergraduate student at Swarthmore College. As a college graduate, she visited the Soviet Union as a Russian-English speaking guide for the 1959 cultural exchange exhibition, USA. Her doctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology addressed the movement of newly synthesized messenger RNA in HeLa cells. Post doctoral studies were at the University of California, Berkeley where she acquired the avian leukosis sarcoma virus model for retroviruse-induced cancers.

Research and career In 1977, she joined the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research where her work using avian leukosis viruses in chickens was instrumental in demonstrating cancer induction by insertional mutagenesis.

Robinson co-founded GeoVax in 2001.

In 2008, Robinson joined GeoVax as Senior Vice President. In 2010 she was promoted to Chief Scientific Officer.

Selected publications (245 total)

Personal life After post-doctoral training, Robinson had a ten-year break (1967 to 1977) to raise three sons.