MEET  THE  FELLOWS  CLASS  OF  2013

The  ISCB  Fellows  Program  was  established  in  2009  to  recognize  members  that  have  made  significant  contributions  to  the  fields  of  computational  biology  and  bioinformatics  and  service  to  the  Society.

Fellows  are  identified  through  a  rigorous  process  involving  a  call  for  nominations  from  the  ISCB  membership,  and  selection  by  the  Fellows  Selection  Committee,  which  includes  the  ISCB  Board  of  Directors  and  previously  selected  Fellows.  Additionally,  recipients  of  the  ISCB  Accomplishment  by  a  Senior  Scientist  Award  are  also  granted  Fellows  status.

The  2013  ISCB  Fellows  epitomize  the  mission  of  ISCB  to  advance  scientific  understanding  of  living  systems  through  computation.  Each  Fellow  has  made  outstanding  contributions  to  computational  biology  through  research,  teaching,  and  service  to  the  scientific  community.

	PIERRE BALDI Pierre Baldi is a Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Director of the Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics at the University of California in Irvine. Baldi is a leader in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning and has used these approaches for comparative genomics, computer-based drug design, and modeling of metabolic, neural, and signaling networks.
	DAVID EISENBERG David Eisenberg is a Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Biological Chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles, and he is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Eisenberg is the winner of the 2013 ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award.
	MINORU KANEHISA Minoru Kanehisa is a Professor in the Institute for Chemical Research at Kyoto University in Japan. Kanehisa is one of Japan's most recognized and respected bioinformatics experts. He is the co-founder of the GenBank database and the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health.
	SATORU MIYANO Satoru Miyano is a Professor at the Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science at The University of Tokyo. Miyano is a leader in the computational biology community, is a former member of the ISCB Board of Directors, and has been a key organizer of numerous international bioinformatics and computational biology meetings.
	RUTH NUSSINOV Ruth Nussinov is a Principal Investigator at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health and a Professor in the Department of Human Genetics of School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She is the Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Computational Biology and has served on the editorial boards of several other biomedical journals. Photo courtesy of SAIC-Frederick, Inc.
	STEVEN SALZBERG Steven Salzberg is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Biostatistics, and Computer Science, and Director of the Center for Computational Biology McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetics Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is well known for developing scalable algorithms for genomic analysis.