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With a distinguished career spanning nearly 40 years, Dr. Jacob Maizel has won international recognition for his many achievements in the fields of mammalian virology, cell and computational biology. From 1983 to 2005, Dr. Maizel was Chief of the Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Biology at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Upon his appointment to the NCI, he led the creation of a supercomputing facility known today as the Advanced Biomedical Computing Center (ABCC). This is the only supercomputing system entirely dedicated to biomedical research and available to NCI, NIH and extramural scientists. For his work in developing graphical methods for understanding structure, organization and evolution of genes, Dr. Maizel was awarded the U.S. Public Health Service Superior Award in 1982. His efforts in fostering high performance computing in biomedical research were recognized when he received an NIH Merit Award in 1993. Dr. Maizel is a featured speaker at industry seminars and serves on the editorial boards of a number of medical journals. He has previously served as a professor in the Department of Cell Biology of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and on the High Performance Computing, Communication and Information Technology committee that manages a billion dollar program across more than a dozen agencies. After receiving a Doctorate in Biochemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1959, he initiated research on the structure and replication of poliovirus while in the Laboratory of Cell Biology at the NIH. This research led to his discovery of a method to accurately analyze human virus and cellular proteins, which ultimately revolutionized the study of proteins and served as a catalyst for many important medical breakthroughs in a wide range of fields.
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