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 Bioengineering at Stanford University. His research uses computing to understand drug action at molecular, cellular, organism and population levels. He founded the PharmGKB, is an Associate Director of the Stanford Institute for HumanCentered AI, and coleads an FDA Center of Excellence. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, past president of the International Society for Computational Biology and of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology Therapeutics. He chaired the FDA Science Board and served on the NIH Directors Advisory Committee. He has received Stanford awards for Teaching and Mentorship. He coorganizes the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, and is a founder of Personalis (NASDAQ: PSNL). He is founding editor of the Annual Reviews of Biomedical Data Science, and hosts a podcast entitled "The Future of Everything."