Gary Stormo, Ph.D.

Gary Stormo is the Joseph Erlanger Professor Emeritus in the Department of Genetics at the Washington University School of Medicine. He earned a bachelor’s degree at Caltech and a Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology in 1981 from the University of Colorado in Boulder under the mentorship of Larry Gold. He remained in the Gold lab for a postdoc and then joined the faculty in MCDB. His research has focused on the regulation of gene expression using a combination of experimental and computational methods. He is a pioneer in the development and application of computer programs for analyzing DNA sequences to infer functions. In 1999 he moved to Washington University School of Medicine where he played a pivotal role in the creation of the graduate program in Computational and Systems Biology, one of the earliest such programs in the country. He was a founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Bioinformatics and is an elected Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and International Society for Computational Biology. He is the recipient of the Carl and Gerty Cori Faculty Achievement Award.