Atul Butte

Atul Janardhan Butte[2]
Born
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
EducationBrown University (BS, MS, MD)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
AwardsFellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (2009)
National Academy of Medicine (IOM, 2015)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsBioinformatics, health informatics, endocrinology, personalized medicine, genomics, big data, datamining
InstitutionsStanford University
UCSF
ThesisExploring genomic medicine using integrative biology (2004)
Doctoral advisorIsaac Kohane
Doctoral studentsJoel Dudley

Atul Janardhan Butte or Atul J. Butte is an American biomedical informatician, pediatrician, 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.[3]

Education and career

Butte was born in Philadelphia to Janardhan Butte and Mangala Butte.[4] He attended Brown University, where he studied computer science as an undergraduate student. 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.[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 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.[6] He moved to the University of California, San Francisco in 2015.

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.[7]

Butte has an h-index of over 110 and is recognized by Publons 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 on microarray analysis, Microarrays for an Integrative Genomics.

Personal life

Butte lives with his wife, Gini Deshpande, a cancer biology and biotechnology entrepreneur, and daughter in Menlo Park, CA.[12][13] As of 2018, Deshpande was the chief executive officer of NuMedii, an artificial intelligence technology company.[14] His brother Manish J. Butte[4] is a pediatrician at University of California, Los Angeles.

Awards and honors

In 2013, Butte was recognized as an Open Science Champion of Change by the White House.[15] In 2015, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine.[16] In 2021, Butte was elected as a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology.[17] In 2022, he became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[18] In 2024, he received the Award for Excellence in Molecular Diagnostics from the Association for Molecular Pathology and the Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence from the American College of Medical Informatics.[19][20]

References

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  3. ^ Bole, Kristen (16 January 2015). "UCSF Taps Atul Butte to Lead Big Data Center". UCSF. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
  4. ^ a b Butte, Atul J. (2004). Exploring genomic medicine using integrative biology (Thesis thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/33680.
  5. ^ "Atul Butte". xconomy. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  6. ^ "CAP - Atul Butte". Archived from the original on 2012-04-19. Retrieved 2012-04-19.
  7. ^ "TEDMED - Speakers". TEDMED.
  8. ^ "Atul J. Butte - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com.
  9. ^ "Atul Butte's Publons profile". publons.com. Archived from the original on 2022-02-07. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  10. ^ "Personalis - Team". Archived from the original on 2012-04-27. Retrieved 2012-04-19.
  11. ^ "Team". Archived from the original on 2012-02-28. Retrieved 2012-04-19.
  12. ^ Leuty, Ron (2 October 2015). "Big Data, new drugs: Peninsula company scores deal with Allergan". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  13. ^ "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.
  14. ^ "NuMedii Inks Single-Cell Sequencing Collaborations With Yale, Brigham and Women's Hospital". GenomeWeb. New York. 10 July 2018. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
  15. ^ "Bioinformatics Leader Honored by White House, Atul Butte - Stanford Medicine Children's Health". www.stanfordchildrens.org. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
  16. ^ "Nine UC members elected to the National Academy of Medicine | UC Health". 2019-03-01. Archived from the original on 2019-03-01. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
  17. ^ "March 02, 2021: ISCB Congratulates and Introduces the 2021 Class of Fellows!". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  18. ^ "2022 AAAS Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2024-11-23.
  19. ^ "Past Recipients". Association for Molecular Pathology. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
  20. ^ "Atul Butte, MD, PhD, FACMI, to be awarded Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence at the AMIA 2024 Annual Symposium | AMIA - American Medical Informatics Association". amia.org. Retrieved 2024-11-11.