Russ Altman

Dr. Altman is a professor of bioengineering, genetics, and medicine, and past chairman of the Bioengineering Department at Stanford University. His research interests include the application of computing and informatics technologies to problems relevant to medicine. For example, uncovering methods for understanding drug action at the molecular, cellular, organism, and population levels, discovering how human genetic variation impacts drug response, and analyzing biological molecules to understand the actions, interactions, and adverse events of drugs.