Russ Altman

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Who is Russ Altman?

Russ Biagio Altman is a scientist at Stanford University Medical School, where he is chair of the department of Bioengineering and director of the program in Biomedical Informatics. He is a past president and one of the founding members of the International Society for Computational Biology.

He is also an attending physician in Menlo Park, California, and is the principal investigator for the PharmGKB knowledgebase.

In February 2006, Altman gave a presentation at Google, in which he explained the opportunities for pharmacogenomics. In August 2007, Altman was interviewed by Kromosoft, in which he discussed the emerging trends in pharmacogenomics. On November 2, 2007, Altman delivered the IEEE Computer Society's BioInformatics and BioMedicine conference keynote lecture on combining simulation and machine learning to recognize function in 4D. Altman is North American Associate Editor of Briefings in Bioinformatics and an honorary consulting editor for the International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine, and in 2010 was elected as a fellow for the International Society for Computational Biology. Altman is currently the principal investigator of the Iranian Genome Project, at www.irangenes.com.

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Also known as
  • Russ Biagio Altman
  • Russ Altman, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Russ B. Altman
Profession
Education
  • Bachelor of Arts, Harvard College
    Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
    ( - 1983)
  • Doctorate, Stanford University
    Medical Information Sciences
    ( - 1989)
  • Doctor of Medicine, Stanford University
    ( - 1990)
  • Harvard University
Employment
  • Professor of Genetics, Medicine and (by courtesy) Computer Science, Stanford University
    (2004 - )
  • Associate Professor of Computer Science (by courtesy), Stanford University
    (2002 - 2004)
  • Associate Professor of Genetics and Medicine, Stanford University
    (2001 - 2004)
  • Associate Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
    (1999 - 2002)
  • Associate Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
    (1999 - 2001)
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
    (1995 - 1999)
  • Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
    (1993 - 1999)
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
    (1992 - 1995)
  • Director, Simbios
    (2000 - )
  • Associate Director, Stanford University
    (1996 - 2000)

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on July 23, 2013

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