Philip Bourne

Philip Bourne
Philip Bourne
Born	Philip Eric Bourne; 1953
Died	8 March 2026 (aged 72); Charlottesville, Virginia, US
Alma mater	Flinders University (PhD)
Known for	Unix for VMS Users; PLOS Computational Biology; Protein Data Bank; SciVee;
Spouse	Roma Chalupa (m. 1983)
Children	2
Awards	AAAS Fellow (2011); ISCB Fellow (2011); Jim Gray e-Science award (2010); Ben Franklin Award (2009);
	Scientific career
Fields	Data science; Computational biology; Scholarly communication; Bioinformatics
Institutions	University of Virginia; National Institutes of Health; University of California, San Diego; Columbia University; University of Sheffield;
Thesis	Crystal structure analyses :; metal complexes of biological interest and the stereochemistry of substituted phonylbicyclooctanes (1979)
Notable students	Werner G. Krebs
Website	datascience.virginia.edu/people/phil-bourne

Philip Eric Bourne (1953 – 8 March 2026) was an Australian bioinformatician, non-fiction writer and businessman. He was the Stephenson Chair of Data Science, director of the School of Data Science, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the first associate director for data science at the National Institutes of Health, where his projects include managing the Big Data to Knowledge initiative, and formerly associate vice chancellor at UCSD. He contributed to textbooks and was a strong supporter of open-access literature and software. His diverse interests spanned structural biology, medical informatics, information technology, structural bioinformatics, scholarly communication and pharmaceutical science. His papers are highly cited with an h-index above 80. With over 100,000 citations, he was one of the University of Virginia's most cited researchers.