Remembering Philip E. Bourne (1953–2026)

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Christine Zardecki
Thu, Mar 12, 2026 11:10 AM

Philip E. Bourne, one of the founding members of the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB), passed away on March 8, 2026. He served as RCSB PDB Associate Director from 1998-2013.

Read more at RCSB PDB: https://www.rcsb.org/news/feature/69b1615f8557ae0f261bc714

UVA Data Science: https://datascience.virginia.edu/news/memoriam-philip-bourne-founding-dean-school-data-science


CHRISTINE ZARDECKI
Associate Director, RCSB Protein Data Bank
Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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Philip E. Bourne, one of the founding members of the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB), passed away on March 8, 2026. He served as RCSB PDB Associate Director from 1998-2013. Read more at RCSB PDB: https://www.rcsb.org/news/feature/69b1615f8557ae0f261bc714 UVA Data Science: https://datascience.virginia.edu/news/memoriam-philip-bourne-founding-dean-school-data-science ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHRISTINE ZARDECKI Associate Director, RCSB Protein Data Bank Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 174 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway NJ 08854 E: christine.zardecki@rcsb.org RCSB.org <https://rcsb.org/> | linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/company/rcsb-protein-data-bank> | facebook <https://www.facebook.com/RCSBPDB> | twitter <https://twitter.com/buildmodels> | bluesky <https://bsky.app/profile/rcsbpdb.bsky.social> | youtube <https://www.youtube.com/user/RCSBProteinDataBank> Take the PDB-101 User Survey and Win: https://go.rutgers.edu/h9ss4vlq