Janet Thornton — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1999.
Serves as Senior Scientist and Director Emeritus at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI).
Served as Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) from October 2001 to June 2015.
Pioneered structure validation for protein crystallography and developed the widely used ProCheck software.
Introduced the CATH classification of protein structure with Christine Orengo.
Co-ordinated the four-year preparatory phase of the European life sciences data infrastructure ELIXIR from 2008 to 2012.
Holds a PhD in biophysics from the National Institute for Medical Research, completed in 1973.

Biography

Dame Janet Maureen Thornton is a distinguished senior scientist and director emeritus at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). She is a leading researcher in structural bioinformatics, focusing on using computational methods to understand protein structure and function.