Certain genetic factors can play into sleep quality and duration
, a personal whole genome sequencing company. His research applies computing to problems relevant to medicine. He is interested in methods for understanding drug action, efficacy and adverse effects while integrating molecular, cellular, organism and population data. His lab has a special focus on how human genetic variation impacts drug response—pharmacogenomics. He is the founding Principal Investigator of the Pharmacogenomics Knowledgebase .
Dr. Altman holds an AB from Harvard College, an MD from Stanford Medical School, and a PhD in Medical Information Sciences from Stanford. He received the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians , the American College of Medical Informatics , the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering , and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
the International Society for Computational Biology , and a past-president of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics . He has chaired the Science Board advising the FDA commissioner, served on the NIH Director’s Advisory Committee, and co-chaired the IOM Drug Forum. He is an organizer of the annual, and a founder of Personalis . Dr. Altman is board certified in Internal Medicine and in Clinical Informatics.
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