Meet the ISCB Fellows Class of 2010
The ISCB Fellows Program was inaugurated last year to honor members that have distinguished themselves through outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics. During the inaugural year of the program, ISCB conferred Fellows status on all seven of the ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award winners to-date: David Haussler, David Lipman, Webb Miller, David Sankoff, Temple Smith, Janet Thornton, and Mike Waterman, and committed to automatically honoring all future winners of this award as Fellows as well.

For this year’s Fellows, the Society put out a call for nominations to our member community. The minimum criteria for nomination of highly accomplished and distinguished scientists was that the nominated member had maintained an active membership for at least three of the last six years, and the nomination required endorsement by at least three additional current members. Upon closing of the nomination and endorsement periods, the Fellows Committee, chaired by Søren Brunak (who also chaired the Awards Committee over the past three years), held two meetings to thoughtfully discuss each nominee in order to make the final selections for the Fellows Class of 2010. The selection was particularly difficult this first time around because many nominations were of exceptional contributors to ISCB, and all were of researchers who have fulfilled important roles within our science. Because of the exceptional qualities of the many nominees not selected as Fellows this year, all nominations are being carried over for consideration again in 2011. (Watch for the next Call for Fellows Nominations coming out in October of this year.)

It is with great honor that the ISCB Board of Directors, together with the ISCB Fellows Committee, introduces the newest Fellows featured to the right. If you are attending ISMB in Boston, please be sure to come to the ISCB Open Business Meeting on Sunday, July 11th at 5:45 p.m., during which a brief Fellows ceremony will take place in Room 302 of the Hynes Convention Center.


Russ B. Altman,
Stanford University,
USA
Lawrence Hunter, University of
Colorado School
of Medicine, Denver, USA

Eugene Myers,
Howard Hughes
Medical Institute-
Janelia Farm
Research Center, Ashburn, USA
Chris Sander,
2010 ISCB Accomplishment
by a Senior Scientist Award winner, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

Gary Stormo, Washington
University in
St. Louis, USA
Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Center and
Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute, Madrid, Spain