 Christian Burks, Ph.D. Dr. Burks is an executive with twenty years of experience in molecular biology, genomics, informatics and drug discovery. Before joining Affinium, Dr. Burks served as Vice President and Chief Informatics Officer at Exelixis, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXEL) subsequent to joining the company as Director of Bioinformatics in 1997. He was responsible for a department of 40 staff focused on genome informatics, computational target discovery, and computational drug discovery in the context of comparative genomics and model system genetics. From 1982 to 1996, Dr. Burks served in various positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and was part of the team that created the global DNA sequence database, GenBank, a project he went on to head. As Group Leader of the Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, he led a team of 70 scientists focused on genome informatics, structural biology, mathematical cell biology and molecular biology database resources. The author of more than 50 published articles, reviews, and books, Dr. Burks sits on the Scientific Advisory Board of Cognia, Inc. He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University. |
 
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