1. Lawrence E Hunter is a Professor and Director of the Center for Computational Pharmacology and of the Computational Bioscience Program at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Lawrence Hunter is an internationally known scholar, focused on computational biology, knowledge-driven extraction of information from the primary biomedical literature, the semantic integration of knowledge resources in molecular biology, and the use of knowledge in the analysis of high-throughput data, as well as for his foundational work in computational biology, which led to the genesis of the major professional organization in the field and two international conferences.
From 1989 to 2000, Lawrence Hunter worked as a computer scientist and section chief for National Institutes of Health sections devoted to statistical and bioinformatic research.
Lawrence Hunter was an adjunct faculty member at George Mason University from 1991 through 2000 and an associate professor in the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine from 2000 to 2008.
In 1997, Lawrence Hunter founded what has become the largest professional organization in computational biology and bioinformatics, the International Society for Computational Biology.
Lawrence Hunter was a founder of three successful international conferences in bioinformatics, the International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing and the Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference.
Lawrence Hunter is a co-organizer of the biological visualization conference Vizbi.
Lawrence Hunter cofounded and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Molecular Mining Corporation from 1997 to 2003.
Lawrence Hunter is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and the winner of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence 2003 Engelmore Prize for Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence.
Lawrence Hunter is credited with being one of the founders of the field of bioinformatics.
Lawrence Hunter has proposed neurobiologically and evolutionarily informed computational models of cognition, and ethical issues related to computational bioscience.
Lawrence Hunter has argued for expansion data science activities in biomedicine to include knowledge-based methods.