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Russ Biagio Altman
Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics, & Medicine (and of Computer Science, by courtesy) at Stanford University
Chair, Department of Bioengineering
Department of Bioengineering
318 Campus Drive
Clark Center S170 Mail code: 5444
Stanford, CA 94305-5444
Tel: (650) 725-3394
Fax: (650) 723-8544
Email: russ.altman@stanford.edu
Russ Biagio Altman is professor of bioengineering, genetics, & medicine (and of computer science by courtesy) and
chairman of the Bioengineering Department at Stanford University. His primary research interests are in the application
of computing technology to basic molecular biological problems of relevance to medicine. He is currently developing
techniques for collaborative scientific computation over the Internet, including novel user interfaces to biological
data, particularly for pharmacogenomics (e.g. http://www.pharmgkb.org/). Other work focuses on the analysis of functional
microenvironments within macromolecules and the application of algorithms for determining the structure, dynamics and
function of biological macromolecules (e.g. http://simbios.stanford.edu/). Dr. Altman holds an M.D. from Stanford Medical
School, a Ph.D. in medical information sciences from Stanford, and an A.B. from Harvard College. He has been the
recipient of the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, a National Science Foundation CAREER
Award. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Medical Informatics. He is a
past-president and founding board member of the International Society for Computational Biology, an organizer of the
annual Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. He leads one of seven NIH-supported National Centers for Biomedical
Computation, focusing on physics-based simulation of biological structures (http://simbios.stanford.edu/). He won the
Stanford Medical School graduate teaching award in 2000.
Alfonso Valencia
Protein Design Group
National Centre for Biotechnology
CNB-CSIC
Cantoblanco
Madrid 28049
Spain
Dr. Alfonso Valencia is the director of the National Institute for Bioinformatics and the group leader of the Protein Design Group
at National Centre for Biotechnology in Spain. He is also the executive editor of the journal bioinformatics.
Dr. Valencia's main scientific interest is associated to the use of genomics and proteomics for the study of molecular evolution and for the development of new biotechnological resources, what requires the development of
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology methods.
His group has contributed to the development of various bioinformatics systems, and collaborates actively with
experimental biologists in the study of different molecular systems, such as Chemokine receptors, bacterial cell
division proteins, and small GTPases. The scientific activity of his group includes the analysis and comparison
of genomes, prediction of protein structure and function, analysis of protein interactions, and more recently the
extraction of information from scientific text.
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