Atul Butte

Administrative Appointments

• Associate Director, CTSA Translational Informatics Program, Stanford Center for Clinical and Translational Education and Research (2008 - present)
• Director, Biomedical Informatics Scholarly Area (2007 - present)
• Board of Directors, American Medical Informatics Association (2007 - present)
• Scientific Program Committee, American Medical Informatics Association (2007 - 2007)
• Study Section Reviewer, NIH Biomedical Computing and Health Informatics Study Section (2005 - 2009)
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Honors and Awards

• Elected Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics (2009)
• New Investigator Award, American Medical Informatics Association (2008)
• Tomorrow's Principal Investigator, Genome Technology Magazine (2007)
• HHMI Physician-Scientist Early Career Award, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (2006-2011)
• Research Starter Grant in Informatics, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation (2006-2008)

Professional Education

Postdoctoral Advisees

Annie Chiang, Purveshkumar Khatri, David Ruau, Shai Shen-Orr, Silpa Suthram, Shivkumar Venkatasubrahmanyam

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Biomedical Informatics
• Cancer Biology
• Immunology
• Medicine
• Pediatrics
• Bioengineering

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Industry Relationships

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Research Interests

Translational bioinformatics has been defined as the development of analytic, storage, and interpretive methods to optimize the transformation of increasingly voluminous genomic and biological data into diagnostics and therapeutics for the clinician. The long-term research goal of the Butte Lab is to develop translational bioinformatics methods to reason over many available genome-scale measurement and experimental modalities, and apply these methods to study complex disorders in genomic medicine, especially obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Dr. Butte's laboratory focuses on solving problems relevant to genomic medicine by developing new methodologies in translational bioinformatics. The Butte Lab currently has been funded by HHMI and under five NIH grants. The Butte Lab has developed bioinformatics methods to take genomic, genetic, phenotypic, and RNAi data from multiple sources and phenotypes and reason over these data. Example of this method include our work on cancer drug discovery published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (2000), on type 2 diabetes mellitus published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (2003), on fat cell formation published in Nature Cell Biology (2005), on obesity in Bioinformatics (2007), and in transplantation published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (2009). To facilitate this, the Butte Lab has developed tools to automatically index and find genomic data sets based on the phenotypic and contextual details of each experiment, published in Nature Biotechnology (2006), and in re-mapping microarray data, published in Nature Methods (2007). The Butte Lab has also been developing novel methods in comparing clinical data from electronic health record systems with gene expression data, as described in Science (2008).

Clinical Trials

• Genome, Proteome and Tissue Microarray in Childhood Acute Leukemia Recruiting

Publications

• Disease signatures are robust across tissues and experiments. Dudley JT, Tibshirani R, Deshpande T, Butte AJ. Mol Syst Biol. 2009: 5 307
• Data-driven methods to discover molecular determinants of serious adverse drug events. Chiang AP, Butte AJ. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2009; 85 (3): 259-68
• Translational bioinformatics: coming of age. Butte AJ, J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2008 Nov-Dec; 15 (6): 709-14
• Medicine. The ultimate model organism. Butte AJ, Science. 2008; 320 (5874): 325-7
• Evaluation and integration of 49 genome-wide experiments and the prediction of previously unknown obesity-related genes. English SB, Butte AJ. Bioinformatics. 2007; 23 (21): 2910-7