Philip E. Bourne, PhD, FACMI

Philip Bourne is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego, the Director of Integrative Biosciences at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and Co-director of the Protein Data Bank. He received a first class honors degree and a PhD in Chemistry from the Flinders University of South Australia.

Dr. Bourne was a postdoctoral research fellow at both Sheffield University, UK, and Columbia University, NY, where he worked on the elucidation of various protein structures including the iron storage protein ferritin and post-synaptic neurotoxins. He began a career in structural bioinformatics nine years ago and focuses on data modeling, query languages and the understanding of structure-function relationships with particular reference to cell signaling and apoptosis.

Dr. Bourne is an Associate Editor of the journal Bioinformatics and serves on the Advisory Board of Biopolymers. He is past-president of the International Society for Computational Biology and the recipient of Sun's convergence award. He has now been elected to membership in the American College of Medical Informatics.