Frances I. Lewitter is a computational biologist and the founding director of the Whitehead Institute’s Bioinformatics and Research Computing (BaRC) program.[1]
Fran Lewitter | |
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 Fran Lewitter (right), pictured with Alfonso Valencia in 2017. | |
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | GenBank |
| Awards | ISCB Fellow |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Genetic models of reading disability (1979) |
Education and career
editLewitter gained her PhD in human genetics and statistical genetics from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1979. Following a postdoctoral position at Harvard Medical School where she worked on the GenBank project, she joined the Whitehead Institute to run what is considered to be one of the first bioinformatics core facilities.[2][3]
Lewitter is a strong advocate for bioinformatics education, and was education editor of PLOS Computational Biology from 2005 to 2014.[1]
Awards and honors
editLewitter was awarded the 2017 Outstanding Contributions to ISCB Award by the International Society for Computational Biology.[2] In 2022, she was elected a Fellow of the ISCB.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b "Lewitter named International Society for Computational Biology Fellow". Whitehead Institute of MIT. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
- ^ a b Fogg, Christiana N; Kovats, Diane E; Berger, Bonnie (15 July 2017). "Message from the ISCB: 2017 Outstanding Contributions to ISCB Award Given to Fran Lewitter". Bioinformatics. 33 (14): 2249–2250. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btx291.
- ^ Chang, Jeffrey (April 2015). "Core services: Reward bioinformaticians". Nature. 520 (7546): 151–152. doi:10.1038/520151a.
- ^ "April 28, 2022: ISCB Congratulates and Introduces the 2022 Class of Fellows!". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 13 July 2022.