Research

Information on my most important research and professional interests found here:

• Helix Research Group
• PharmGKB
• Feature
• Simbios

Information on other projects found here:

• Stanford Profile
• PubMed search for my papers  
• Highwire search for my papers
• Stanford Profile Publications
• RiboWEB Knowledge Base, RiboWEB environment for collaborative modeling  
• Genetics and Medicine and Computer Science  
• Biomedical Informatics
• Stanford Medical Scientist Training Program, Associate Director  
• Departmant of Bioengineering
• RNA structure and function, especially tRNA and 30S ribosomal subunit  
• Pharmacogenomics  

Favorite Societies and Meetings 

• International Society for Computational Biology, and associated meetings, particularly the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
• RNA Society Meeting
• AMIA, American Medical Informatics Association Annual Meeting 
• AAAI, American Association for Artificial Intelligence 

Biography

Russ Biagio Altman is the Kenneth Fong Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics, Medicine, Biomedical Data Science and (by courtesy) Computer Science) and past chairman of the Bioengineering Department at Stanford University. His primary research interests are in the application of computing (AI, data science and informatics) to problems relevant to medicine. He is particularly interested in methods for understanding drug action at molecular, cellular, organism and population levels. His lab studies how human genetic variation impacts drug response (e.g., http://www.pharmgkb.org/). Other work focuses on the analysis of biological molecules to understand the actions, interactions and adverse events of drugs (e.g., http://feature.stanford.edu/). He helps lead an FDA-supported Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science & Innovation.

Dr. Altman holds an AB from Harvard College, and an MD from Stanford Medical School, and a PhD in Medical Information Sciences from Stanford. He received the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine, IOM). He is a past-president, founding board member, and a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), and a past-president of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (ASCPT). He has chaired the Science Board advising the FDA commissioner, and has served on the NIH Director’s Advisory Committee, and as cochair of the IOM Drug Forum. He is an organizer of the annual Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, and a founder of Personalis (NASDAQ: PSNL). Dr. Altman is board certified in Internal Medicine and in Clinical Informatics. He received the Stanford Medical School graduate teaching award in 2000 and mentorship award in 2014. He is the founding editor of the Annual Reviews of Biomedical Data Science, and hosts a SiriusXM radioshow (and podcast) entitled “The Future of Everything.”

Other Sites

Helix Research Group
FEATURE
PharmGKB (PharmGKBlog)
Simbios (SimTK)
PubMed search for my papers 
Building confidence academic blog