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Atul Janardhan Butte or Atul J. Butte is an American biomedical informatician, pediatrician, and biotechnology entrepreneur. He is currently the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Since April 2015, Butte has serves as inaugural director of UCSF's Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute.




Education and career


Butte was born in Philadelphia to Janardhan Butte and Mangala Butte. He attended Brown University, where he studied computer science as an undergraduate student. As a member of the school's Program in Liberal Medical Education he was guaranteed acceptance to Brown's Alpert Medical School, where he obtained his MD in 1995.
Butte completed a residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in pediatric endocrinology, both at Children's Hospital Boston. In 2004, he completed a Ph.D. from the Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, supervised by Dr. Isaac Kohane.
Butte moved to California and became an assistant professor at Stanford University in 2005. He later became the Chief of the Division of Systems Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital where he held the position of an associate professor of pediatrics and (by courtesy) computer science and immunology & rheumatology. He moved to the University of California, San Francisco in 2015.
In April 2012, Butte delivered a TEDMED talk describing his lab's development of techniques using massive amount of publicly available biomedical research data to make new discoveries without running a wet-lab and actually outsourcing experiments using assaydepot.com.
Butte has an h-index of over 110 and is recognized by Publons as a highly cited researcher. He has also founded two biotechnology companies (Personalis and NuMedii) and wrote one of the first books on microarray analysis, Microarrays for an Integrative Genomics.




Personal life


Butte lives with his wife, Gini Deshpande, a cancer biology and biotechnology entrepreneur, and daughter in Menlo Park, CA. As of 2018, Deshpande was the chief executive officer of NuMedii, an artificial intelligence technology company. His brother Manish J. Butte is a pediatrician at University of California, Los Angeles.




Awards and honors


In 2013, Butte was recognized as an Open Science Champion of Change by the White House. In 2015, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine. In 2021, Butte was elected as a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology. In 2022, he became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2024, he received the Award for Excellence in Molecular Diagnostics from the Association for Molecular Pathology and the Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence from the American College of Medical Informatics.




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External links


Lab homepage
Academic profile
Article in New York Times on Butte's research

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