About UChicago Argonne, LLC
Board of Governors
John C. Wooley, Ph.D.
- Member, UChicago Argonne, LLC Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory
- Associate Vice Chancellor of Research, University of California, San Diego
John C. Wooley is a leader in bringing computers and biology together. He created the first programs within the U.S. government for funding research in bioinformatics and computational biology. This effort included collaborating on the first stages of the genome project and establishing new interdisciplinary training programs. His research involves bioinformatics and structural genomics, and has included structure-function relationships in protein-nucleic acid complexes and the architecture of chromatin and ribonucleoproteins.
In his position as Associate Vice Chancellor of Research at the University of California, San Diego, Wooley's primary responsibilities as part of the campus academic leadership team are establishing priorities and undertaking new initiatives, and developing and implementing new research and training programs in science and engineering. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the university, in pharmacology, chemistry and biochemistry, and a strategic advisor and Senior Fellow of the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
For the new UCSD California Institute for Telecommunication and Information Technology, Wooley directs the biology and biomedical applications component, termed Digitally-enabled Genomic Medicine, a step in delivering personalized medicine in a wireless clinical setting. His principle objectives at UCSD are to stimulate new research initiatives for large-scale, multidisciplinary challenges. He collaborates in developing scientific applications of information technology and high-performance computing; creating industry-university collaborations; expanding applied life science opportunities, notably drug discovery; and establishing a biotechnology and pharmacology science park on UCSD's health sciences campus zone.
Wooley earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1975, working with Al Crewe and Robert Uretz in biological physics. He joined Argonne 's Board of Governors in 2003.
