Jill P. Mesirov (also published as Jill P. Mesirov-Kazdan) is an American

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, and

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who is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Computational Health Sciences at the

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. She previously held an adjunct faculty position at

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbur ...

and was the associate director and chief informatics officer at the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Education

Mesirov did her undergraduate studies at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

, and earned a doctorate in mathematics from

Brandeis University Brandeis University () is a Private university, private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. It is located within the Greater Boston area. Founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian, non-sectarian, coeducational university, Bra ...

in 1974, under the supervision of

Richard Palais Richard Sheldon Palais (born May 22, 1931) is an American mathematician working in differential geometry. Education and career Palais studied at Harvard University, where he obtained a B.A. in 1952, an M.A. in 1954 and a Ph.D. in 1956. His Ph ...

Research and career

Her research concerns

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.Profile
Broad Institute, retrieved 2015-02-22. Effective July 1, 2015, she has been appointed Associate Vice Chancellor for Computational Health Sciences and Professor of Medicine at the

University of California, San Diego School of Medicine The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine is the graduate medical school of the University of California, San Diego, a public land-grant research university in La Jolla, California. It was the third medical school in the Univer ...

and

Moores Cancer Center The Rebecca and John Moores Cancer Center is the region's only NCI-designated Cancer Center, part of UC San Diego Health and affiliated with the University of California, San Diego. It is supported, in part, by the National Cancer Institute T ...

. She has worked at the

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, the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

Thinking Machines Corporation Thinking Machines Corporation was a supercomputer manufacturer and artificial intelligence (AI) company, founded in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1983 by Sheryl Handler and Danny Hillis, W. Daniel "Danny" Hillis to turn Hillis's doctoral work at th ...

, and

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before joining the Whitehead Institute of MIT in 1997, which eventually became part of the Broad Institute. She was president of the

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from 1989 to 1991. She served on the Board of Trustees for the

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(ICERM) from 2017 to 2021.

Awards and honors

Mesirov became a

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of the

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is a United States–based international nonprofit with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsib ...

in 1996. In 2012, she was elected an

ISCB Fellow ISCB Fellowship is an award granted to scientists that the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) judges to have made “outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics”. , there are 161 Fello ...

by the

International Society for Computational Biology The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is a scholarly society for researchers in computational biology and bioinformatics. The society was founded in 1997 to provide a stable financial home for the Intelligent Systems for Mo ...

in 2012, and one of the inaugural

s of the

. In 2017, she was selected as a fellow of the

in the inaugural class.

Publications

* (co-ed.) ''Mathematical Approaches to Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications'', avec Klaus Schulten et De Witt Sumners, Springer, 254p. * (coll.) ''Research in Computational Molecular Biology'', 9th Annual International Conference, RECOMB 2005, Cambridge, MA, USA, May 14–18, 2005, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Springer, 632p. * ''Very Large Scale Computing in the 21st Century'', Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics, 1991, 345p.

References

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