Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor at UCSF | Director, Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute
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Atul Butte
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor at UCSF | Director, Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute
At-a-Glance
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor and inaugural Director of the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Chief Data Scientist for the University of California Health System, the eighth largest by revenue in the United States.
Co-founder of three investor-backed data-driven companies: Personalis (IPO, 2019), Carmenta (acquired by Progenity, 2015), and NuMedii.
Inventor on 26 patents and author of nearly 400 publications; recognized by the Obama Administration as a White House Champion of Change in Open Science (2013).
Author of 'Microarrays for an Integrative Genomics'.
Elected into the National Academy of Medicine (2015), American Association for the Advancement of Science (2022), and International Society for Computational Biology (2021).
Holds an MD from Brown University and a PhD from Harvard Medical School and MIT.
Biography
Atul Butte, MD, PhD, is the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor and inaugural Director of the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
