Steering Team

Sallie Keller, Ph.D., Chair
William and Stephanie Sick Dean of Engineering
George R. Brown School of Engineering
Rice University 

Steven Ludtke, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Co-Director National Center For Macromolecular Imaging
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine

Lydia Kavraki, Ph.D.
Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Bioengineering (Joint Appointment)
Rice University
Professor, Graduate Program in Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics (Joint Appointment)
Baylor College of Medicine

Lennart Johnsson, Ph.D.
Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering 
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and College of Engineering
University of Houston

David States, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Health Information Science
School of Health Information Sciences
Institute of Molecular Medicine
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Bruce Luxon, Ph.D.
Director of Biomedical Informatics
UTMB Institute for Translational Science
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

Jonas Almeida, Ph.D.
Abell-Hanger Distinguished Professor
Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center