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 Process:
We encourage a careful preparation of the nomination material. The nominator should not assume that the voters are familiar with the candidate. For this reason, the nomination should concentrate on the information that is essential, demonstrates the excellence and impact of the candidate's scientific work, their service to, and leadership roles in, ther scientific field.
The ISCB Fellows Selection Committee, along with the current ISCB Fellows, will select nominees that have distinguished themselves through outstanding contricutions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics, incorporating the following criteria in the selection process:
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Nomination must be made by an ISCB member using the online nomination form and completing all of the
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- Relationship with the nominee
- Indication of nomination category (see below)
- Brief nomination statement, e.g. “for development of computational methods for analyzing high-throughput sequencing data”
- Extended statement of endorsement highlighting the excellence of scientific, service, leadership, and contribution impact to the field. This statement should include the candidate’s contributions to mentorship, citizenship within our community, and commitment to fostering a positive research culture. Maximum 600 words
- A list of the top five published articles, annotated to indicate the nominee’s contribution, as well as H-index as determined by Google scholar
- Names and email addresses of at least three (3) and no more than five (5) endorsers who must be ISCB Fellow or equivalent, see below
- CV of the nominee (as either an uploaded document, link to a cv on the nominee’s website, or an informative list-like CV created by the nominator).
- Nominees will be assessed on the magnitude and quality of contributions to the field of computational biology.
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The nominator is required to provide names and email addresses of at least three (3) and no more than
five (5) endorsers. These will be contacted directly by ISCB for the endorsement letter. The nominator
is responsible for informing the endorser in advance of the submission of the nominations to be ensure
they are aware of the endorsement request. The endorser MUST BE a current ISCB Fellow
or an established researcher in the field who has been elected as a Fellow or obtained Fellow status by
another scholarly scientific society, e.g. Royal Society or National Academy of Sciences. The endorser
will be asked to complete a form with the following information:
- Statement of endorsement highlighting the excellence of scientific, service, leadership, and contribution impact to the field. Maximum 500 words.
- Identification of five (5) publications that demonstrate the scientific work
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We consider three (3) categories of Fellow nominations, however, this distinction is only relevant
during the election process. Once elected, Fellows categories will not be distinguished:
- Academic nominees: Nominees, with at least ten (10) years experience in the field who have done the bulk of their work in academia, including government and research institutions. Such nominations must demonstrate excellence in computational biology research, which includes the development of methods, the application of methods for discovery biology, or the development of resources that advance research. The nomination can be strengthened by pointing to service to the computational biology community, education and/or administration.
- Industry nominees: Nominees, with at least ten (10) years experience in the field who have done the bulk of their work in industry. Such nominations must demonstrate the impact of their 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 or resources.
- Leadership nominees: Nominees, with at least ten (10) years experience in the field who have contributed through their leadership activities to enhance the field of computational biology. This includes but is not limited to direct leadership contributions to ISCB, promotion of computational biology in other professional societies, supporting the development of scientific conferences or training, promotion of the field within funding agencies, mentorship, and working towards equity and inclusion in science. These nominations are considered by the ISCB Awards COmmittee as they do not relate to scientific contributions.
- Fellow status is automatically bestowed upon the annual Accomplishment by a Sr. Scientist Award winner, as well as the annual Outstanding Contributions to ISCB Award winner
- Selection of new Fellows each year is limited to 1/2 of one percent of the previous year's membership. Those receiving the highest number of affirmative votes up to the threshold will be elected.
ISCB DISTINGUISHED FELLOWS
2024
 Teresa K Attwood 2021 Outstanding Contribution to ISCB; University of Manchester United Kingdom |  Niko Beerenwinkel ETH Zurich Switzerland |  Peer Bork 2021 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; EMBL Germany |  Barbara E Engelhardt 2021 Overton Prize; Stanford University United States |  Tao Jiang University of California, Riverside United States |  Carl Kingsford Carnegie Mellon University United States |
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 Eugene V Koonin National Institutes of Health United States |  Doron Lancet Weizmann Institute of Science Israel |  Philippe M Lemey KU Leuven Belgium |  Scott Markel Dassault Systèmes United States |  Peter J Park Harvard Medical School United States |  Natasa Przulj Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) United Arab Emirates |
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 Torsten Schwede SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics & University of Basel Switzerland |  Michael J Sternberg Imperial College London United Kingdom |  Fengzhu Sun University of Southern California United States |  Mihaela L Zavolan Biozentrum, University of Basel Switzerland |
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PREVIOUS YEARS
 2023 Bissan Al-Lazikani The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center United States |  2010 Russ Altman 2018 Outstanding Contribution to ISCB; Stanford University United States |  2015 Rolf Apweiler EMBL-EBI United Kingdom |  2011 Michael Ashburner 2011 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; University of Cambridge United Kingdom |  2018 Patricia C. Babbitt Univ. of California, San Francisco United States |  2019 Vineet Bafna UC San Diego United States |
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 2014 Amos Bairoch Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Switzerland |  2013 Pierre Baldi University of California, Irvine United States |  2017 Alex Bateman EMBL-EBI United Kingdom |  2020 Serafim Batzoglou 2016 ISCB Innovator Award; Stanford University United States |  2012 Bonnie Berger 2019 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; MIT United States |  2016 Helen M Berman Rutgers University United States |
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 2014 Ewan Birney 2005 Overton Prize; EBI United Kingdom |  2020 Judith Anne Blake 2020 Outstanding Contribution to ISCB; The Jackson Laboratory United States |  2020 Mark Borodovsky Georgia Tech United States |  2011 Philip Bourne University of Virginia United States |  2016 Steven E. Brenner 2010 Overton Prize; University of California, Berkeley United States |  2011 Søren Brunak 2016 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; University of Copenhagen Denmark |
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 2022 Barbara Bryant 2019 Outstanding Contribution to ISCB; Barb's Bioinfo United States |  2021 Atul Butte University of California, San Francisco United States |  2017 Andrea Califano Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center United States |  2020 Rita Casadio University of Bologna Italy |  2015 Cyrus Chothia 2015 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology United Kingdom |  2015 Julio Collado-Vides National University of Mexico Mexico |
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 2023 Ana Victoria Conesa Spanish National Research Council Spain |  2023 Lenore J Cowen Tufts University United States |  2021 Keith Dunker Indiana University United States |  2011 Richard Durbin University of Cambridge United Kingdom |  2022 Sean R Eddy Harvard University United States |  2013 David Eisenberg 2013 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics United States |
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 2023 Arne Elofsson Stockholm University Sweden |  2019 Eleazar Eskin University of Calfornia, Los Angeles United States |  2020 Paul Flicek EMBL-European Bioinformatics institute United Kingdom |  2014 Nir Friedman Hebrew University Israel |  2018 Terry Gaasterland University of California San Diego United States |  2022 Mikhail S. Gelfand Skoltech Russian Federation |
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 2014 Robert Gentleman Harvard Medical School United States |  2015 Mark Gerstein Yale University United States |  2022 Takashi Gojobori Saudi Arabia |  2020 Osamu Gotoh CBRC Japan |  2016 Dan Gusfield UC DAVIS United States |  2021 Eran Halperin University of California, Los Angeles United States |
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 2009 David Henry Haussler 2008 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; University of California/UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute United States |  2015 Desmond G Higgins Conway Institute Ireland |  2016 Barry Honig Columbia University United States |  2021 Wolfgang Huber EMBL Germany |  2010 Lawrence Hunter 2015 Outstanding Contribution to ISCB; University of Chicago United States |  2022 Trey Ideker 2009 Overton Prize; University of Califormia, San Diego United States |
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 2020 Rafael Irizarry Dana-Farber Cancer institute United States |  2021 Sorin Istrail Brown University United States |  2022 David T Jones University College London United Kingdom |  2013 Minoru Kanehisa Kyoto University Japan |  2012 Peter D Karp SRI International United States |  2016 Janet Kelso MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology Germany |
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 2023 Oliver Kohlbacher University of Tuebingen Germany |  2017 Daphne Koller insitro United States |  2017 Anders Krogh University of Copenhagen Denmark |  2015 Thomas Lengauer Max Planck Institute for Informatics Germany |  2021 Christina S Leslie MSKCC United States |  2015 Michael Levitt Stanford School of Medicine United States |
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 2022 Fran Lewitter 2017 Outstanding Contribution to ISCB; Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research United States |  2021 Ming Li University of WaterlooPro Canada |  2023 Heng Li Dana-Farber Cancer Institute United States |  2016 Michal Linial The Hebrew University Israel |  2009 David Lipman 2004 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; Impossible Foods United States |  2019 Xiaole Shirley Liu 2020 ISCB Innovator Award; GV20 Therapeutics United States |
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 2022 Jun Liu Harvard University United States |  2021 Nuria Lopez-Bigas 2022 ISCB Innovator Award; ICREA-IRB Barcelona Spain |  2018 Hanah Margalit The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel |  2022 Debora Marks 2016 Overton Prize; Harvard Medical School United States |  2012 Jill P Mesirov UC San Diego United States |  2009 Webb Miller 2009 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; Pennsylvania State University United States |
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 2013 Satoru Miyano The University of Tokyo Japan |  2018 Yves Moreau KU Leuven Belgium |  2018 Bernard M.e. Moret EPFL United States |  2021 John Moult University of Maryland United States |  2010 Eugene Myers 2014 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics Germany |  2023 Luay Nakhleh Rice University United States |
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 2017 William S Noble 2019 ISCB Innovator Award; University of Washington United States |  2013 Ruth Nussinov 2018 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; National Cancer Institute United States |  2016 Christine Anne Orengo University College London United Kingdom |  2023 Francis Ouellette Retired Canada |  2017 Lior Pachter California Institute of Technology United States |  2020 Laxmi Parida IBM T J Watson Research Center United States |
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 2021 Dana Pe’er 2014 Overton Prize; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center United States |  2018 William Pearson University of Virginia United States |  2012 Pavel Pevzner 2017 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; University of California at San Diego United States |  2020 Katherine S Pollard Gladstone Institutes & UCSF United States |  2022 Mihai Pop University of Maryland United States |  2021 Teresa M Przytycka NIH United States |
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 2023 Shoba Ranganathan Macquarie University Australia |  2020 Ben Raphael 2021 ISCB Innovator Award; Princeton University United States |  2016 Aviv Regev 2017 ISCB Innovator Award, 2008 Overton Prize; Genentech United States |  2015 Burkhard Rost 2016 Outstanding Contribution to ISCB; TUM Munich Germany |  2021 Eytan Ruppin Tel-Aviv University Israel |  2019 Marie-France Sagot Inria and UMR 5558 LBBE CNRS France |
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 2014 Andrej Sali University of California San Francisco United States |  2013 Steven L Salzberg 2020 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; Johns Hopkins University United States |  2010 Chris Sander 2010 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute United States |  2009 David Sankoff 2003 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; University of Ottawa Canada |  2022 Reinhard Schneider 2022 Outstanding Contribution to ISCB; LCSB Luxembourg |  2023 Russell S Schwartz Carnegie Mellon University United States |
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 2012 Ron Shamir 2022 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; Tel Aviv University Israel |  2023 Roded Sharan Tel Aviv University Israel |  2018 Mona Singh Princeton University United States |  2009 Temple F. Smith 2007 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; Boston University United States |  2018 Mike Steel University of Canterbury New Zealand |  2016 Lincoln D Stein Ontario Institute for Cancer Research Canada |
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 2021 Gustavo Stolovitzky NYU Langone Health United States |  2010 Gary Stormo Washington University Medical School United States |  2016 Sarah Amalia Teichmann Cambridge Stem Cell Institute United Kingdom |  2023 Fabian J. Theis Helmholtz Munich Germany |  2009 Janet M Thornton 2005 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; EMBL-EBI United Kingdom |  2016 Anna Tramontano University of Rome Italy |
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 2017 Olga Troyanskaya 2011 Overton Prize; Princeton University United States |  2010 Alfonso Valencia Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputacion (BSC) Spain |  2012 Martin Vingron Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics Germany |  2012 Gunnar Von Heijne 2012 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; Stockholm University Sweden |  2017 Tandy Warnow university of illinois United States |  2009 Michael Waterman 2006 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; University of Southern California United States |
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 2020 Zhiping Weng UMass Chan Medical School United States |  2016 Shoshana J Wodak Vlaamse Inst. of Biotechnology, Flemish Free Unversity of Brussels Belgium |  2016 Haim J Wolfson Tel Aviv University Israel |  2023 Cathy H Wu University of Delaware United States |  2023 Jinbo Xu Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago United States |  2020 Xuegong Zhang Tsinghua University China |
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 2023 Jinghui Zhang St. Jude Children's Research Hospital United States |
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