Speaker

M. Madan Babu is the George J Pedersen Endowed Chair of Biological Data Science in the Department of Structural Biology at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital. He is also the Director of the Center of Excellence for Data-Driven Discovery and the Senior Vice President for Data Science at St Jude. Before joining St Jude, Madan was a Programme Leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK (2006-2020). Madan’s research group develops data science approaches to enable biological discoveries, with a particular emphasis on understanding how the precise structure and intrinsically disordered regions of proteins, such as GPCRs, contribute to cellular function. His interests and publications span diverse areas in life sciences relevant to human diseases and medicine.

The work from his group has been recognized with national and international awards, including the Royal Society’s Francis Crick Medal, the Blavatnik Award, the EMBO Gold Medal and more recently the Ulf Von Euler award lecture from Karolinska Institute for his fundamental contributions to the field of computational molecular biology; specifically for his discoveries in the areas of GPCR signaling and intrinsically disordered proteins. Madan is the Chief Editor of Molecular Systems Biology (EMBO press), an Executive Editor of Nucleic Acids Research (OUP) and a member of the Board of Reviewing Editors at Science (AAAS). He is an elected member of EMBO, Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Science, the Royal Society of London, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Madan completed his postdoctoral research at the NCBI, NIH (2006), received his Ph.D. from the MRC Lab of Molecular Biology and Trinity College, Cambridge, UK (2004), and his undergraduate degree from the Centre for Biotechnology at Anna University in India (2001).

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