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Columbia University Medical Center NewsroomCUMC Expert Resources
| ![[picture of Barry Honig, Ph.D. ]](http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/news/pics/honig_barry_90.jpg) Barry Honig, Ph.D. ,
Dr. Barry Honig, professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at Columbia University Medical Center, is an expert in the emerging fields of bioinformatics and computational biology. Dr. Honig is involved in the development of software tools, computer technologies, and mathematical techniques to identify protein function based on protein structure. He can discuss the use of these mechanisms to characterize families of proteins and their specific roles in the body of research that has major implications for the design of new, more effective pharmaceuticals. A National Academy of Sciences member and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, Dr. Honig is director of Columbia''s Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and also co-directs the new, NIH-funded National Center for the Multi-Scale Analysis of Genetic and Cellular Networks (MAGNet). MAGNet will serve as a vehicle for the creation and establishment of management tools to handle and leverage large amounts of data from the Human Genome Project. For press inquiries, please contact Elizabeth Streich (eas2125@columbia.edu or 212-305-6535) or Alex Lyda(ma2133@columbia.edu or 212-305-0820).
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