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

2019

Vineet Bafna Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, USA	Eleazar Eskin Professor, Computer Science Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, USA	Xiaole Shirley Liu Professor, Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, USA	Marie-France Sagot Director of Research (DR1) INRIA, Universite Claude Bernard, France

 
PREVIOUS YEARS

2010	2015	2011	2018	2014	2013	2017	2012
Russ B. Altman 2018 Outstanding Contribution to ISCB; Stanford University, USA	Rolf Apweiler EMBL-EBI, UK	Michael Ashburner 2011 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; University of Cambridge, UK	Patricia C. Babbitt University of California, San Francisco, USA	Amos Bairoch University of Geneva, Switzerland	Pierre Baldi University of California, Irvine, USA	Alex Bateman EMBL-EBI, UK	Bonnie Berger Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
2016	2014	2011	2016	2011	2017	2015	2011
Helen Berman Rutgers University, USA	Ewan Birney 2005 ISCB Overton Prize; EMBL-EBI UK	Philip E. Bourne University f Virginia, USA	Steven Brenner 2010 ISCB Overton Prize; University of California, Berkeley, USA	Søren Brunak 2017 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Denmark	Andrea Califano Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center USA	Cyrus Chothia Wolfson College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK	Julio Collado-Vides Center for Genomics Sciences, UNAM, Mexico
2011	2013	2014	2018	2014	2015	2016	2009
Richard Durbin Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK	David Eisenberg 2013 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; University of California, Los Angeles, USA	Nir Friedman Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel	Terry Gaasterland University of California, San Diego, USA	Robert Gentleman 23andMe San Francisco, USA	Mark Gerstein Yale University, New Haven, USA	Dan Gusfield University of California, Davis, USA	David Haussler 2008 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
2015	2010	2016	2013	2012	2016	2017	2015
Desmond Higgins University College, Dublin, Ireland	Lawrence Hunter 2015 Outstanding Contribution to ISCB; University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, USA	Barry Honig Columbia University, USA	Minoru Kanehisa Kyoto University, Japan	Peter Karp SRI International, USA	Janet Kelso MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany	Anders Krogh University of Copenhagen, Denmark	Thomas Lengauer Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
2015	2016	2009	2018	2012	2013	2013	2018
Michael Levitt Stanford University, Stanford, USA	Michal Linial The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel	David Lipman 2004 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; Impossible Foods, USA	Hanah Margalit Hebrew University, Israel	Jill Mesirov The Broad Institute, USA	Webb Miller 2009 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; Pennsylvania State University, USA	Satoru Miyano University of Tokyo, Japan	Yves Moreau Katholieke Universiteit Leuven R & D, Belgium
2018	2013	2017	2013	2016	2017	2018	2012
Bernard M.E. Moret Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland	Eugene Myers 2014 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; MPI-CBG, Germany	William S. Noble University of Washington, USA	Ruth Nussinov 2018 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; Tel Aviv University, Israel & National Cancer Institute, USA	Christine Orengo University College London, UK	Lior Pachter Caltech, USA	William Pearson University of Virginia, USA	Pavel Pevzner 2017 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; University of California, San Diego, USA
2016	2015	2014	2013	2010	2009	2012	2018
Aviv Regev 2017 ISCB Innovator Award, 2008 ISCB Overton Prize; The Broad Institute, USA	Burkhard Rost 2016 Outstanding Contribution to ISCB Senior Scientist Award; Technical University Munich, Germany	Andrej Sali University of California, San Francisco, USA	Steven Salzberg Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA	Chris Sander 2010 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, USA	David Sankoff 2003 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; University of Ottawa, Canada	Ron Shamir Tel Aviv University, Israel	Mona Singh Princeton University, USA
2009	2018	2016	2010	2016	2009	2016	2017
Temple Smith 2007 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; Boston University, USA	Mike Steel Canterbury University	Lincoln Stein Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Canada	Gary Stormo Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, USA	Sarah Teichmann Welcome Trust Sager Institute & EMBL-EBI, UK	Janet Thornton 2005 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; EMBL-EBI, UK	Anna Tramontano Sapienza University of Rome, Italy	Olga Troyanskaya 2011 ISCB Overton Prize; Princeton University & Simons Foundation, USA
2010	2012	2012	2017	2009	2016	2016
Alfonso Valencia Barcelona Supercomputing Center & Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute, Madrid, Spain	Martin Vingron Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany	Gunnar von Heijne 2012 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; Stockholm University, Sweden	Tandy Warnow University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA	Mike Waterman 2006 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; University of Southern California, USA	Shoshana Wodak The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada	Haim Wolfson Tel Aviv University, Israel

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