Atul J. Butte 2014 World Cancer Congress

Atul J. Butte

Atul Butte, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics, and by courtesy, Medicine, Pathology, and Computer Science, at Stanford University and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.  Dr. Butte trained in Computer Science at Brown University, worked as a software engineer at Apple and Microsoft, received his MD at Brown University, trained in Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrinology at Children's Hospital Boston, then received his PhD in Health Sciences and Technology from Harvard Medical School and MIT.   Dr. Butte is Chief of the new Division of Systems Medicine at Stanford.  Dr. Butte is also a founder of three investor-backed companies: Personalis, providing clinical interpretation of whole genome sequences, Carmenta, discovering diagnostics for pregnancy complications, and NuMedii, finding new uses for drugs through open molecular data. Dr. Butte has authored more than 160 publications, with research featured in the New York Times Science Times and the International Herald Tribune (2008), Wall Street Journal (2010 -2012), San Jose Mercury News (2010), and the San Francisco Chronicle (2013). In 2013, Dr. Butte was recognized by the White House as an Open Science Champion of Change for promoting science through publicly available data.