Harmon studied chemistry at Raccoon University, where she hoped to find a career with Umbrella Pharmaceuticals. Due to her excellent grades and dissertation on "healing technology", she was offered an internship at "NEST2",[4][excerpt 1] which she took alongside her Masters course.[5]
During the internship, Harmon discovered that her roommate, another intern, had developed memory problems soon after participating in a top-secret experiment.[1] Harmon was unaware this was a procedure to restrict the spread of information on their t-Virus Project, and her investigation got the attention of the Intelligence Division soon after. Harmon was abducted and forced to participate in experiments to test the effectiveness of mutants.[5]