Historic ACMI Biography
Lawrence Hunter is the Director of the Center for Computational Pharmacology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and an Associate Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology, Computer Science, and Preventive Medicine and Biometrics. He is also a Founder and Director of Molecular Mining Corporation. He received his BA degree cum laude in psychiatry and a PhD in computer science from Yale University. Dr. Hunter spent more than 10 years at the National Institutes of Health, beginning in the machine learning project at the National Library of Medicine and ending as the Chief of the Molecular Statistics and Bioinformatics Section at the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Hunter's research interests span a wide range of areas, from cognitive science to rational drug design. His primary focus recently has been the application of machine learning techniques to data generated by high-throughput molecular biology. He has also developed techniques for automated processing of biomedical texts, anatomically realistic models of neural computation, and neurobiologically and evolutionarily informed computational models of cognition. Dr. Hunter inaugurated two of the most important academic bioinformatics conferences, Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology and Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, and was Founding President of the International Society for Computational Biology.
Affiliations
The American College of Medical Informatics
ACMI is a college of elected Fellows from the U.S. and abroad who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics. It is the central body for a community of scholars and practitioners who are committed to advancing the informatics field.
Year Elected
2001