ISCB Fellows Program

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The International Society for Computational Biology introduced the ISCB Fellows Program in 2009 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 the Fellow status on the seven winners-to-date of the ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award, and recognized these distinguished scientists during the ISMB/ECCB 2009 conference in Stockholm, Sweden. Since then ISCB has sought nominations from our community of members, which are reviewed and voted upon by a selection committee. New Fellows are introduced at each year's ISMB conference.

The distinction of an ISCB Fellow is based on the following:

• Nomination by an ISCB member must be made using the online nomination form, which requires a single-sentence description of why this person is being proposed, a detailed half-page statement of motivation (500 words maximum) on why this is a good nominee, and a CV (as either an uploaded document or a bullet-point list created by the nominator).
• Nominees must have demonstrated excellence in research, service to the ISCB Community, education and/or administration.
• Nominees must have been a member of the Society for at least three of the last six years.
• Fellow status is automatically bestowed upon the annual Accomplishment by a Sr. Scientist Award winner.
• Selection of new Fellows each year is limited to 1/2 of one percent of the previous year's membership, including the Sr. Scientist Award winner.

The ISCB Fellows Committee oversees the Fellows program and recommends changes or improvements to the ISCB Board of Directors. Members of the Fellows Committee who are not already ISCB Fellows are not eligible to be elected as new Fellows while serving on the Fellows Committee. Selecting new Fellows is the job of the Fellows Selection Committee by voting on the nominations received each year. The Selection Committee is currently made up of all current Fellows and all members of the ISCB Board of Directors. Upon selection, new Fellows may use the title immediately and will be recognized at the ISMB meeting following their selection.

ISCB Fellows Class of 2012

Bonnie Berger Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA	Peter Karp SRI International, USA	Jill Mesirov The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA	Pavel Pevzner University of California, San Diego, USA	Ron Shamir Tel Aviv University, Israel	Martin Vingron Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany	Gunnar von Heijne 2012 ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award Winner Stockholm University, Sweden

ISCB Fellows Class of 2011

Michael Ashburner 2011 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award EMBL-EBI, UK	Philip E. Bourne University of California, San Diego, USA	Søren Brunak Technical University of Denmark	Richard Durbin Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK

ISCB Fellows Class of 2010

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

ISCB Fellows Class of 2009

David Haussler, 2008 ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award winner; University of California, Santa Cruz, USA	David Lipman, 2004 ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award winner; National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), US	Webb Miller, 2009 ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award winner; Pennsylvania State University, USA	David Sankoff, 2003 ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award winner; University of Ottawa and Université de Montréal, Canada	Temple Smith, 2007 ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award winner; Boston University, USA	Janet Thornton, 2005 ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award winner; European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), UK	Mike Waterman, 2006 ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award winner; University of Southern California, USA

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