Atul Butte
Atul J. Butte is a biomedical informatics researcher and biotechnology entrepreneur. He is currently the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Since April 2015, Butte has serves as inaugural director of UCSF's Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute.[2]
Atul J. Butte | |
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| Education | Brown University (BS, MD) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MD) |
| Awards | Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (2009) National Academy of Medicine (IOM, 2015)[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Bioinformatics, health informatics, endocrinology, personalized medicine, genomics, big data, datamining |
| Institutions | UCSF |
| Doctoral advisor | Isaac Kohane |
| Doctoral students | Joel Dudley |
Previously, Butte was Chief of the Division of Systems Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital where he held the position of an associate professor of pediatrics and (by courtesy) computer science and immunology & rheumatology.[3]
Education edit
Butte attended Brown University, where he studied computer science as an undergrad. As a member of the school's Program in Liberal Medical Education he was guaranteed acceptance to Brown's Alpert Medical School, where he obtained his MD in 1995.
Butte completed a residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in pediatric endocrinology, both at Children's Hospital Boston. In 2004, he completed a Ph.D. from the Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, supervised by Dr. Isaac Kohane.[4]
Career edit
Butte has an h-index of over 85 and is recognized by Publons as a highly cited researcher.[5][6] He has also founded two biotechnology companies (Personalis[7] and NuMedii[8]) and wrote one of the first books on microarray analysis, Microarrays for an Integrative Genomics.
In April 2012, Butte delivered a TEDMED talk describing his lab's development of techniques using massive amount of publicly available biomedical research data to make new discoveries without running a wet-lab and actually outsourcing experiments using assaydepot.com.[9]
Butte lives with his wife, Gini Deshpande, a cancer biology and biotechnology entrepreneur, and daughter in Menlo Park, CA.[10][11] As of 2018[update], Deshpande was the chief executive officer of NuMedii, an artificial intelligence technology company.[12]
Awards and honors edit
In 2021, Butte was elected as a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology.[13]
References edit
- ^ "NAM Elects 80 New Members – National Academy of Medicine". Nam.edu. 2015-10-19. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
- ^ Bole, Kristen. "UCSF Taps Atul Butte to Lead Big Data Center". UCSF. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
- ^ . Archived from the original on 2012-04-19. Retrieved 2012-04-19.
- ^ "Atul Butte". xconomy. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
- ^ "Atul J. Butte - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com.
- ^ . publons.com. Archived from the original on 2022-02-07. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
- ^ . Archived from the original on 2012-04-27. Retrieved 2012-04-19.
- ^ . Archived from the original on 2012-02-28. Retrieved 2012-04-19.
- ^ "TEDMED - Speakers". TEDMED.
- ^ Leuty, Ron (2 October 2015). "Big Data, new drugs: Peninsula company scores deal with Allergan". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ "Big Data guru Atul Butte's NuMedii scores $3.5M VC round for 'digital' drug research | FierceBiotech". www.fiercebiotech.com. 26 June 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ "NuMedii Inks Single-Cell Sequencing Collaborations With Yale, Brigham and Women's Hospital". GenomeWeb. New York. 10 July 2018. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
- ^ "March 02, 2021: ISCB Congratulates and Introduces the 2021 Class of Fellows!". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
External links edit
- Lab homepage
- Academic profile
- Article in New York Times on Butte's research