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Rebekah Mobley-Kasner
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Harmit Malik (Ph.D) has truly across the global to furthering his education and ultimately to be a part of the cure for cancer. Born in India, Malik studied chemical engineering at the Indian Institutes of Technology, Bombay (now renamed Mumbai) before crossing the Pacific to attend the University of Rochester's doctoral program studying biology. Having discovered an interest molecular biology in Bombay, Malik had studied in the nascent Biotechnology Center before coming to the U.S. and studying evolutionary origins of retrotransposable element. Most recently Malik crossed the U.S. to work in Seattle, Washington, at the Steve Henikoff research lab before branching out on his own to run his own lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for the last six years. His research focuses on better understanding gene conflicts affect human evolution through researching rapidly evolving proteins. To the layman the most commonly known gene conflict is cancer; research for which he was named one of the 2008 National Science Foundation award recipients.