Fran Lewitter
Fran Lewitter | |
|---|---|
 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) |
Frances I. Lewitter is a computational biologist and the founding director of the Whitehead Institute’s Bioinformatics and Research Computing (BaRC) program.[1]
Education and career
[edit | edit source]Lewitter 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] and served as an editor for the journal’s “Ten Simple Rules” column from 2014 to 2020[4]
Awards and honors
[edit | edit source]Lewitter 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.[5]
References
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