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).
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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 2016 ISCB Innovator Award; Stanford, DNAnexus, Insitro USA |  Judith Blake 2020 Outstandind Contribution to ISCB; The Jackson Laboratory USA |  Mark Borodovsky Georgia Institute of Technology USA |  Rita Casadio University of Bologna Italy |  Paul Flicek EMBL-EBI UK |  Osamu Gotoh CBRC Japan |
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 Rafael Irizarry Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard T.S. Chan School of Public Health USA |  Laxmi Parida IBM T J Watsonb Research Center USA |  Katherine Pollard Gladstone Institutes, University of California San Francisco 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 Outstandind Contribution to ISCB; Stanford University USA |  2015 Rolf Apweiler EMBL-EBI UK |  2011 Michael Ashburner 2011 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; University of Cambridge UK |  2018 Patricia C. Babbitt University of California San Francisco USA |  2019 Vineet Bafna University of California San Diego USA |  2014 Amos Bairoch Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Geneva Switzerland |
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 2013 Pierre Baldi University of USA |  2017 Alex Bateman EMBL-EBI UK |  2012 Bonnie Berger 2019 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA |  2016 Helen Berman Rutgers University USA |  2014 Ewan Birney 2005 Overton Prize; EMBL-EBI UK |  2011 Philip E. Bourne UVA Data Science Institute, University of Virginia USA |
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 2016 Steven Brenner 2010 Overton Prize; University of California Berkeley USA |  2011 Søren Brunak 2016 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Denmark |  2017 Andrea Califano Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center USA |  2015 Cyrus Chothia 2015 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Wolfson College, Cambridge University UK |  2015 Julio Collado-Vides Center for Genomics Sciences, UNAM Mexico |  2011 Richard Durbin University of Combridge, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute UK |
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 2013 David Eisenberg 2013 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California Los Angeles USA |  2019 Eleazar Eskin University of California Los Angeles USA |  2014 Nir Friedman Hebrew University Israel |  2018 Terry Gaasterland University of California San Diego USA |  2014 Robert Gentleman Harvard Medical School, 23andMe USA |  2015 Mark Gerstein Yale University USA |
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 2016 Dan Gusfield University of California Davis USA |  2009 David Haussler 2008 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; Howard Hughes Medical Institute/UC Santa Crtuz Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz USA |  2012 Gunnar von Heijne 2012 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; Stockholm University Sweden |  2015 Desmond Higgins Conway Institute, University College Dublin Ireland |  2016 Barry Honig Columbia University/Howard Hughes Medical Institute USA |  2010 Lawrence Hunter 2015 Outstandind Contribution to ISCB; University of Colorado School of Medicine USA |
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 2013 Minoru Kanehisa Kyoto University Japan |  2012 Peter Karp SRI International USA |  2016 Janet Kelso MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology Germany |  2017 Daphne Koller Insitro USA |  2017 Anders Krogh University of Copenhagen Denmark |  2015 Thomas Lengauer Max-Planck Institute for Informatics Germany |
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 2015 Michael Levitt Stanford University USA |  2016 Michal Linial The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel |  2009 David Lipman 2004 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; Impossible Foods USA |  2019 Xiaole Shirley Liu 2020 ISCB Innovator Award; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health USA |  2018 Hanah Margalit Hebrew University Israel |  2012 Jill Mesirov University of California San Diego, The Broad Institute USA |
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 2009 Webb Miller 2009 Accomplishment by a 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 |  2010 Eugene Myers 2014 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; MPI-CBG Germany |  2017 William S. Noble 2019 ISCB Innovator Award; University of Washington USA |
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 2013 Ruth Nussinov 2018 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; Tel Aviv University & 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 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; University of California San Diego USA |  2016 Aviv Regev 2017 ISCB Innovator Award, 2008 Overton Prize; The Broad Institute USA |
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 2015 Burkhard Rost 2016 Outstandind Contribution to ISCB; Technical University Munich/Columbia University Germany |  2019 Marie-France Sagot Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Évolutive, INRIA, Universite Claude Bernard France |  2014 Andrej Sali University of California San Francisco USA |  2013 Steven Salzberg 2020 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine USA |  2010 Chris Sander 2010 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center USA |  2009 David Sankoff 2003 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; University of Ottawa Canada |
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 2012 Ron Shamir Tel Aviv University Israel |  2018 Mona Singh Princeton University USA |  2009 Temple Smith 2007 Accomplishment by a 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 USA |
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 2016 Sarah Teichmann Welcome Trust Sager Institute. EMBL-EBI UK |  2009 Janet Thornton 2005 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; EMBL-EBI UK |  2016 Anna Tramontano Sapienza University of Rome Italy |  2017 Olga Troyanskaya 2011 Overton Prize; Princeton University, Simons Foundation USA |  2010 Alfonso Valencia Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute Spain |  2012 Martin Vingron Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Germany |
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 2017 Tandy Warnow University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign USA |  2009 Mike Waterman 2006 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; University of Southern California USA |  2016 Shoshana Wodak Vlaamse Institute of Biotechnology, Flemish Free University of Brussels, The Hospital for Sick Children Belgium |  2016 Haim Wolfson Tel Aviv University Israel |
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