Harold Garner

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Harold Ray Garner ("Skip Garner") is a biophysicist with distinguished research careers both in plasma physics and in bioengineering. He received his BS in Nuclear Engineering (minor in computer science) at the University of Missouri, Rolla in 1976 and a Ph.D. in plasma/high temperature matter physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1982^[1]. He also holds an honorary professional engineering degree also from the University of Missouri, Rolla.

Before the academic segment of his career, he worked for 12 years at the major development laboratory General Atomics in La Jolla, California, where he conducted experimental and theoretical research for the Department of Energy at international fusion research facilities, principally in Japan (5 years) and the Soviet Union. In the last 6 years at General Atomics, he was a founding member of The Institute for Development and Application of Advanced Technologies, an internal think tank group, where he developed artificial intelligence/expert systems, new particle accelerators, high temperature superconductors, stealth technologies and biology software and instrumentation.

He currently holds the P. O’B. Montgomery, M.D., Distinguished Chair of Biochemistry and Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, He is a member of the McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development (Human Genetics Center) and a founding member of the Division of Translational Research (DTR) . He is Program Chair of the Joint Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and University of Texas at Arlington.

He sits on numerous corporate advisory boards and advises for numerous government and private agencies. He is also the founder of several biotech companies - Helix, BioAutomation, Light Biology now Nimblegen Nimblegen and etexx Biopharmaceuticals.

His lab focuses on research in three areas: 1) applied computational biology, 2) advanced instrumentation development and 3) genetics, genomics and proteomics research that capitalizes on our software findings and instrumentation capabilities. He has developed the ETBLAST bibliographic search program, and published over 40 peer-reviewed journal papers since 2002.