Hurt Darrell E

Darrell Hurt received the B.S. degree (Hons.) in chemistry (computational emphasis, physics minor) from Brigham Young University and the combined M.S./Ph.D. degree in chemistry (biophysical emphasis) from Cornell University, under the supervision of Dr. Jon Clardy. He serves as the Chief of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB), Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology (OCICB), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA. The Branch provides a wide variety of bioinformatics products and services to the NIAID intramural and extramural community, including the recent formation of the African Centers of Excellence (ACE) in bioinformatics and data science, the first instance of which resides in Bamako, Mali. He did postdoctoral work in lipid signaling and cell trafficking using X-ray crystallography with Dr. James Hurley with NIH.