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C O N T E N T S } 2003 ISCB Membership Registration Now Open Application Deadline to Host ISMB 2004 or 2005 SGI Awards Best Paper and Best Poster Awards at ISMB 2002 CAPRI and ECCB Travel Fellowship Recipients Bourne Receives Sun Convergence Lifetime Achievement Award Download Newsletter pdf
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Bourne Receives Sun Convergence Award Sun Microsystems has acknowledged the scientific leadership of San Diego Supercomputer Center’s (SDSC) Director of Integrative Biosciences and ISCB President, Phil Bourne, presenting him with the Convergence Award at BioFusion 2002, an event held at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego, California, on June 24, 2002. The Sun Microsystems Convergence Award recognizes a scientific leader who has fostered the integration of information technology with the life sciences, with the ultimate goal of improving global public health. “Phil Bourne’s leadership continues to have a dramatic impact on facilitating the IT convergence into the advancement of Life Sciences,” said Howard Asher, director, life sciences industry solutions worldwide at Sun Microsystems. “It is because of Phil Bourne’s contributions that Sun Microsystems has honored him with the Convergence Award.” “SDSC is proud to see Phil recognized for his contributions to the biology community in San Diego and around the world,” said SDSC Director Fran Berman. “Thanks to Phil and our world-class team of computational biologists, SDSC has been able to make unique contributions to biology and bioinformatics and to foster breakthroughs in scientific discovery for biology and health care.” Bourne, a computational biologist for nearly two decades, is considered a leader in the world’s bioinformatics community. Along with his research projects at SDSC, Bourne serves as a professor of pharmacology at the University of California at San Diego, and an adjunct professor at the Burnham Institute and the Keck Graduate Institute. Bourne has headed
up a long roster of projects, including serving as co-director of
the Protein Data Bank and a principle investigator of the Systematic
Protein Annotation and Modeling project, funded by the National
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