Biographies

Philip E. Bourne, Ph.D.

Professor Philip Bourne received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the Flinders University of South Australia in 1980 where he studied the structural and electrophilic effects of substitution on fully saturated caged hydrocarbon molecules. While a post-doctoral fellow at Sheffield University UK he contributed to the understanding of the structural role of the protein ferritin in iron storage. Later as a Senior Research Scientist at Columbia University in New York he proposed mechanisms for the role of caracurines and snake toxins that operate postsynaptically. During the 80's as first the Director of the Cancer Center Computer Facility and later Director of the Medical School Computer Facility at Columbia University he established a tumor registry and various applications and databases in support of patient care. In the early 90's as a Senior Associate of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute he worked on developing high performance hardware and software for computational structural biology. He moved to UCSD in 1995, while bioinformatics was still a bad word, to work on structural bioinformatics. He is currently the Senior Advisor to the Life Sciences at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at UCSD, an Adjunct Professor at the Burnham Institute and the Keck Graduate Institute, Co-Director of the Protein Data Bank (PDB), an elected Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association and the immediate past President of the International Society for Computational Biology. His current interests are in structural genomics, proteomics, apoptosis, cell signaling, data modeling and scientific visualization.

He is the author of over 140 scientific papers and 4 books, one of which sold over 120,000 copies. He has received two UCSD Connect Awards for new inventions in the areas of comparative protein structure analysis and shared visualization. Most recently he was the recipient of the 2002 Sun Microsystems Convergence Award. He has founded two companies, both of which will be successful soon.

In July 2000, The University of California Board of Regents approved the establishment of the The UCSD School of Pharmacy . The School will matriculate the first class of twenty-five Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) students in the Fall of 2002 along with the first group of Ph.D. students. The Doctor of Pharmacy class size will increase to 60 students per class by 2005. The projected steady-state enrollment will be 240 Pharm.D. students, 60 Ph.D. students and 30 pharmacy residents.

The School of Pharmacy at the University of California, San Diego will offer students an innovative and flexible curriculum leading to the Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree, taught by a stellar health sciences faculty in a program closely associated with the outstanding clinical, research and academic programs in the School of Medicine.

The UCSD School of Pharmacy is located on the Health Sciences Campus in La Jolla. An approved School of Pharmacy building is under design and construction and scheduled for completion in 2005. The building will serve as the future education and research base for the School and is designed with contemporary computational and informatics facilities and connections to clinical sites throughout the state. Clinical teaching facilities include UCSD affiliated teaching hospitals, outpatient clinics and other institutions in the San Diego area.
http://pharmacy.ucsd.edu

The mission of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is to innovate, develop, and deploy technology to advance science. SDSC is involved in an extensive set of collaborations and activities at the intersection of technology and science whose purpose is to enable and facilitate the next generation of scientific advances. Founded in 1985 and primarily funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), SDSC is an organized research unit of the University of California, San Diego. With a staff of more than 400 scientists, software developers, and support personnel, SDSC is an international leader in data management, grid computing, biosciences, geosciences, and visualization.
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