Adam Phillippy

Adam M. Phillippy is an American bioinformatician serving as senior investigator and head of the Genome Informatics Section at the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health. He is known for his work that resulted in the first complete sequence of a human genome.

Phillippy received his B.S. (2002) in computer science from Loyola University Maryland under the advising of Arthur Delcher and his M.S. (2008) and Ph.D. (2010) in computer science from the University of Maryland with Steven Salzberg.

He is a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the NIH Director's Award, the Ilchun Molecular Medicine Award from the Korean Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and a distinguished alumni award from Loyola University Maryland.