Butte, Guccione, Kortemme, and Link Inducted Into American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Atul Butte, MD, PhD, director of the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, has been inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE.) He was elected in recognition of his “outstanding contributions creating a precision medicine roadmap with open access data, enabling the discovery of novel therapeutics and diagnostics.”
Butte, the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, is a leader in advancing precision medicine and data science. A world-renowned expert in medical technology, he joined UCSF four years ago to spearhead the university’s efforts in harnessing the power of “big data.”