Dr. Babu is a member of the Crazy 8 team that is studying Small Moledule Degraders for Targeting Transcription Factor Drivers of Childhood Cancer. He is one of the pioneers in establishing data science-based approaches to reveal the principles of biological systems. He was recruited to St. Jude in 2020 as the Endowed Chair of Biological Data Science in the Department of Structural Biology and Director of the Center of Excellence for Data-Driven Discovery. Dr Babu was awarded the 2019 EMBO Gold Medal for his contributions to the field of computational biology and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences, UK. He leads a diverse, prolific, and innovative research team leveraging computational and experimental methods to study biological systems at different scales of complexity.