Christine Orengo

Christine Anne Orengo is a Professor of Bioinformatics at University College London (UCL) known for her work on protein structure, particularly the CATH database. From 2021 to 2024, Orengo served as president of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), the first woman to do so in the history of the society.

Education Orengo studied Chemical Physics at the University of Bristol where she was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in 1976. She continued her studies at the University of Aberdeen where she was awarded a Master of Science degree in Medical Physics in 1977 for research on the disruption of iron metabolism in laboratory rats with Yoshida sarcomas. She was awarded a PhD for research on the redox properties of haem in proteins in 1984 from UCL.

Career and research Following her PhD, Orengo worked in industry as Chief Chemist for FCI International, Brussels and mathematical modeller for Humphreys & Glasgow in London.

Orengo is co-editor with David Jones and Janet Thornton of the textbook Bioinformatics: Genes, Proteins and Computers. , according to Google Scholar Nucleic Acids Research, Structure Her former doctoral students include Camilla Pang, Sonja Lehtinen and Ian Sillitoe.

Awards and honours Orengo was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2014 and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019.