10 Facts About Anna Tramontano

Anna Tramontano was an Italian computational biologist and chair professor of biochemistry at the Sapienza University of Rome.

Anna Tramontano was an associate editor for the journal Bioinformatics from 2005 until 2016 editing papers in the area of structural bioinformatics.

Anna Tramontano was later drawn to the field of computational biology and carried out postdoctoral studies at the University of California, San Francisco where she developed the molecular graphics package InsightII.

Anna Tramontano later joined the biocomputing programme at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg to work with Arthur Lesk on analysis and modelling of antibodies.

Anna Tramontano served as vice-president of the International Society for Computational Biology, and was elected a Fellow of the ISCB in 2016.

Anna Tramontano served on the ISCB Board of Directors since its beginning, and was a Senior Member of the ISCB for many years.

Anna Tramontano actively engaged in computational biology capacity building particularly for developing countries.

Anna Tramontano supported capacity building efforts of one of the regional student groups affiliated to the ISCB Student Council by giving a 3-day course.

Anna Tramontano traveled to Nairobi, Kenya and sponsored students from the neighboring region to attend a 3-day Proteomics course that she taught.

Anna Tramontano later went on to assist in securing a King Abdullah University of Science and Technology funding for a large number of travel fellowships that were awarded to students from Africa to attend the ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference on Bioinformatics held in Bamako, Mali in 2009.