ISCB FELLOWS

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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.

Nomination procedure:

Each Fellow is nominated by an ISCB member using the online nomination form. The nomination form asks for a summary comprising a few sentences of the reason for the nomination, a more detailed half-page statement of motivation (500 words maximum) on why this is a good nominee, and a CV (as either an uploaded document , link to the nominees website, or an informative list-like CV created by the nominator).
We newly consider two types of Fellow nominations:
(i) Academic nominees: These are nominees who have done the bulk of their work in academia, including government and research institutions. Such nominations must demonstrate primarily excellence in research, which includes the development of methods or resources that advance research. The nomination can be strengthened by pointing to service to the computational biology community, education and/or administration.
(ii) Industry nominees: These are nominees who have done the bulk of their work in industry. Such nominations must demonstrate primarily the impact of their industrial work on the field. The nomination can be strengthened by pointing to research, education, or service to the computational biology community, e.g. by providing research infrastructure.
We encourage a careful preparation of the nomination material. In the past years, the hurdles for accepting a candidate as a Fellow have increased in two ways: First, the number of nominations has risen sharply, reaching up to 50, which contrasts with at most 15 or so people who can be accepted in a year. For this reason, it cannot be expected that the voters search for additional information on candidates that is not given in the nomination. Therefore the nomination should give all information that the nominator considers essential. Second, acceptance requires a 60% majority of the votes of all voting fellows. As the number of fellows rises, this hurdle is increasingly hard to overcome. In particular, the nominator cannot assume that the voters are familiar with the candidate. For this reason, the nomination should concentrate on the information that is essential and characteristic for the candidate.
The nominator must also provide a one-to-two sentence citation highlighting the contributions to the computational field. (For example “for discovery of computational methods for analyzing high-throughput sequencing data”). This blurb will be used on promotional materials and presented to the newly-elected Fellow for review. The Fellows Committee will have final say on the content of the new Fellows’ descriptions.
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.
Nominees will be assessed on the magnitude and quality of contributions to the field of computational biology. Once elected, Fellows will not be classified as type (i) or (ii) above. This distinction is only relevant during the election process.

The ISCB Fellows Selection Committee (made up of the current Fellows) oversees the Fellows Program and recommends changes or improvements to the ISCB Board of Directors. Selecting new Fellows is the job of the Fellows Selection Committee by voting on the nominations received each year. The Selection Committee is made up of all current Fellows. Upon selection, new Fellows may use the title immediately and will be recognized at the ISMB meeting following their selection.

ISCB DISTINGUISHED FELLOWS

2020

Serafim Batzoglou DNAnexus, Insitro USA	Judith Blake 2020 ISCB Outstanding Contributions Award Professor, The Jackson Laboratory USA	Mark Borodovsky Georgia Institute of Technology USA	Rita Casadio University of Bologna Italy	Paul Flicek EMBL-EBI UK

Osamu Gotoh National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Japan	Rafael Irizarryo Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Harvard T.S. Chan School of Public Health USA	Laxmi Parida IBM USA	Katherine Pollard Gladstone Institutes, University of California USA	Ben Raphael Princeton University USA

Zhiping Weng University of Massachusetts Medical School USA	Xuegong Zhang Tsinghua University China

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PREVIOUS YEARS

2010 Russ B. Altman 2018 Outstanding Contribution to ISCB; Stanford University USA	2015 Rolf Apweiler EMBL-EBI UK	2011 Michael Ashburner 2011 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; University of Cambridge UK	2018 Patricia C. Babbitt University of California, San Francisco USA	2019 Vineet Bafna Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego USA	2014 Amos Bairoch University of Geneva Switzerland

2013 Pierre Baldi University of California, Irvine USA	2017 Alex Bateman EMBL-EBI UK	2012 Bonnie Berger Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA	2016 Helen Berman Rutgers University USA	2014 Ewan Birney 2005 ISCB Overton Prize; EMBL-EBI UK	2011 Philip E. Bourne University f Virginia USA

2016 Steven Brenner 2010 ISCB Overton Prize; University of California, Berkeley USA	2011 Søren Brunak 2017 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Denmark	2017 Andrea Califano Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center USA	2015 Cyrus Chothia Wolfson College, Cambridge University, Cambridge UK	2011 Julio Collado-Vides Center for Genomics Sciences, UNAM Mexico	2011 Richard Durbin Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute UK

2013 David Eisenberg 2013 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; University of California, Los Angeles USA	2019 Eleazar Eskin Professor, Computer Science Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles USA	2014 Nir Friedman Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel	2018 Terry Gaasterland University of California, San Diego USA	2014 Robert Gentleman 23andMe, San Francisco USA	2015 Mark Gerstein Yale University, New Haven USA

2016 Dan Gusfield University of California, Davis USA	2009 David Haussler 2008 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; University of California, Santa Cruz USA	2015 Desmond Higgins University College, Dublin Ireland	2016 Barry Honig Columbia University USA	2010 Lawrence Hunter 2015 Outstanding Contribution to ISCB; University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver USA	2013 Minoru Kanehisa Kyoto University Japan

2012 Peter Karp SRI International USA	2016 Janet Kelso MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology Germany	2017 Anders Krogh University of Copenhagen Denmark	2015 Thomas Lengauer Max-Planck Institute for Informatics Germany	2015 Michael Levitt Stanford University, Stanford USA	2016 Michal Linial The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel

2009 David Lipman 2004 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; Impossible Foods USA	2019 Xiaole Shirley Liu 2020 ISCB Innovator Award Professor, Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health USA	2018 Hanah Margalit Hebrew University Israel	2012 Jill Mesirov The Broad Institute USA	2013 Webb Miller 2009 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; Pennsylvania State University USA	2013 Satoru Miyano University of Tokyo Japan

2018 Yves Moreau Katholieke Universiteit Leuven R & D Belgium	2018 Bernard M.E. Moret Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Switzerland	2013 Eugene Myers 2014 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; MPI-CBG Germany	2017 William S. Noble University of Washington USA	2013 Ruth Nussinov 2018 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; Tel Aviv University, Israel & National Cancer Institute USA	2016 Christine Orengo University College London UK

2017 Lior Pachter Caltech USA	2018 William Pearson University of Virginia USA	2012 Pavel Pevzner 2017 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; University of California, San Diego USA	2016 Aviv Regev 2017 ISCB Innovator Award, 2008 ISCB Overton Prize; The Broad Institute USA	2015 Burkhard Rost 2016 Outstanding Contribution to ISCB Senior Scientist Award; Technical University Munich Germany	2019 Marie-France Sagot Director of Research (DR1) INRIA, Universite Claude Bernard France

2014 Andrej Sali University of California, San Francisco USA	2013 Steven Salzberg 2020 ISCB Senior Scientist Award Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine USA	2010 Chris Sander 2010 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York USA	2009 David Sankoff 2003 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; University of Ottawa Canada	2012 Ron Shamir Tel Aviv University Israel	2018 Mona Singh Princeton University USA

2009 Temple Smith 2007 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; Boston University USA	2018 Mike Steel Canterbury University, New Zealand	2016 Lincoln Stein Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Canada	2010 Gary Stormo Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis USA	2016 Sarah Teichmann Welcome Trust Sager Institute & EMBL-EBI UK	2009 Janet Thornton 2005 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; EMBL-EBI UK

2016 Anna Tramontano Sapienza University of Rome Italy	2017 Olga Troyanskaya 2011 ISCB Overton Prize; Princeton University & Simons Foundation USA	2010 Alfonso Valencia Barcelona Supercomputing Center & Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute, Madrid Spain	2012 Martin Vingron Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Germany	2012 Gunnar von Heijne 2012 ISCB Senior Scientist Award Stockholm University Sweden	2017 Tandy Warnow University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign USA

2009 Mike Waterman 2006 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; University of Southern California USA	2016 Shoshana Wodak The Hospital for Sick Children Canada	2016 Haim Wolfson Tel Aviv University Israel