Atul Janardhan Butte[2] | |
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| Education | Brown University (BS, MS, MD) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Awards | Fellow of theAmerican 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 | Stanford University UCSF |
| Thesis | Exploring genomic medicine using integrative biology (2004) |
| Doctoral advisor | Isaac Kohane |
| Doctoral students | Joel Dudley |
Atul Janardhan Butte orAtul J. Butte is an Americanbiomedical informatician,pediatrician, andbiotechnology entrepreneur. He is currently the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor at theUniversity of California, San Francisco. Since April 2015, Butte has serves as inaugural director of UCSF's Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute.[3]
Butte was born inPhiladelphia to Janardhan Butte and Mangala Butte.[4] He attendedBrown University, where he studied computer science as an undergraduate student. As a member of the school'sProgram in Liberal Medical Education he was guaranteed acceptance to Brown'sAlpert Medical School, where he obtained his MD in 1995.
Butte completed a residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in pediatric endocrinology, both atChildren's Hospital Boston. In 2004, he completed aPh.D. from theHarvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, supervised by Dr.Isaac Kohane.[5]
Butte moved to California and became an assistant professor at Stanford University in 2005. He later became the Chief of the Division of Systems Medicine atStanford University School of Medicine andLucile Packard Children's Hospital where he held the position of an associate professor of pediatrics and (by courtesy)computer science andimmunology &rheumatology.[6] He moved to theUniversity of California, San Francisco in 2015.
In April 2012, Butte delivered aTEDMED 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 actuallyoutsourcing experiments usingassaydepot.com.[7]
Butte has anh-index of over 110 and is recognized byPublons as a highly cited researcher.[8][9] He has also founded two biotechnology companies (Personalis[10] and NuMedii[11]) and wrote one of the first books onmicroarray analysis,Microarrays for an Integrative Genomics.
Butte lives with his wife, Gini Deshpande, a cancer biology and biotechnology entrepreneur, and daughter inMenlo Park, CA.[12][13] As of 2018[update], Deshpande was thechief executive officer of NuMedii, anartificial intelligence technology company.[14] His brother Manish J. Butte[4] is a pediatrician atUniversity of California, Los Angeles.
In 2013, Butte was recognized as an Open Science Champion of Change by theWhite House.[15] In 2015, he was elected a member of theNational Academy of Medicine.[16] In 2021, Butte was elected as aFellow of theInternational Society for Computational Biology.[17] In 2022, he became a fellow of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science.[18] In 2024, he received the Award for Excellence in Molecular Diagnostics from theAssociation for Molecular Pathology and theMorris F. Collen Award of Excellence from theAmerican College of Medical Informatics.[19][20]
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