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.

Fellows nominations will open in September 2017. The deadline to submit a nomination is 2 December 2017. Nominations for the selection of the 2017 Class of Fellows is now closed.

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 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.

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

2017

Alex Bateman European Bioinformatics Institute-EMBL UK	Andrea Califano Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center USA	Daphne Koller Stanford University USA	Anders Krogh University of Copenhagen Denmark	William S. Noble University of Washington USA	Lior Pachter Caltech USA	Olga Troyanskaya Princeton University & Flatiron Institute of the Simons Foundation USA	Tandy Warnow University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign USA

PREVIOUS YEARS

2010	2015	2011	2014	2013	2012	2016	2014
Russ B. Altman Stanford University USA	Rolf Apweiler European Bioinformatics Institute of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hinxton, UK	Michael Ashburner 2011 ISCB Senior Scientist Award EMBL-EBI, UK	Amos Bairoch University of Geneva, Switzerland	Pierre Baldi University of California, Irvine USA	Bonnie Berger Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA	Helen Berman Rutgers University USA	Ewan Birney European Molecular Biology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) UK
2011	2016	2011	2015	2015	2011	2013	2014
Philip E. Bourne National Institutes of Health, USA	Steven Brenner University of California, Berkeley	Søren Brunak Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research Denmark	Cyrus Chothia Wolfson College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK	Julio Collado-Vides Center for Genomics Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico	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
2014	2015	2016	2009	2015	2010	2016	2013
Robert Gentleman Genentech 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	Desmond Higgins University College, Dublin Ireland	Lawrence Hunter University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver USA	Barry Honig Columbia University USA	Minoru Kanehisa Kyoto University Japan
2012	2016	2015	2015	2016	2009	2012	2013
Peter Karp SRI International USA	Janet Kelso MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology Germany	Thomas Lengauer Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany	Michael Levitt Stanford University, Stanford, USA	Michal Linial The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel	David Lipman 2004 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) USA	Jill Mesirov The Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard USA	Webb Miller 2009 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; Pennsylvania State University, USA
2013	2013	2012	2016	2012	2016	2015	2013
Satoru Miyano University of Tokyo, Japan	Eugene Myers 2014 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; Howard Hughes Medical Institute-Janelia Farm Research Center, Ashburn, USA	Ruth Nussinov Tel Aviv University, Israel and the National Cancer Institute	Christine Orengo University College London UK	Pavel Pevzner University of California, San Diego, USA	Aviv Regev Broad Institute USA	Burkhard Rost Technical University Munich, Germany	Steven Salzberg Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine USA
2014	2010	2009	2012	2016	2009	2016	2010
Andrej Sali University of California, San Francisco, 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 Université de Montréal Canada	Ron Shamir Tel Aviv University Israel	Sarah Teichmann EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute	Temple Smith 2007 ISCB Senior Scientist Award Boston University USA	Lincoln Stein Ontario Institute for Cancer Research Canada	Gary Stormo Washington University, St. Louis, USA
2009	2016	2010	2012	2012	2009	2016	2016
Janet Thornton 2005 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) UK	Anna Tramontano University of Rome Italy	Alfonso Valencia Spanish National Cancer Research Center and 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	Mike Waterman 2006 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; University of Southern California, USA	Shoshana Wodak University of Toronto Canada	Haim Wolfson Tel Aviv University Israel

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