MEET THE FELLOWS CLASS OF 2014

The ISCB Fellows Program recognizes members of the scientific community for their service and their noteworthy contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics.

Fellows are distinguished through a rigorous process that includes a call for nominations by the ISCB membership, selection by the Fellows Selection committee that is comprised of the previously named Fellows.

The 2014 ISCB Fellows are exemplary members of ISCB and the scientific community and embody the Society's mission to advance scientific understanding of living systems through computation. The research, teaching, and service records of each Fellow shows how their contributions are invaluable to the computational biology community.

Amos Bairoch

Amos Bairoch is a Professor and Director of Bioinformatics in the Human Protein Sciences department of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and he is also a Group Leader at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics in Geneva, Switzerland. Bairoch completed his doctorate at the University of Geneva, and his work has been dedicated to the field of protein sequence analysis. Bairoch was a key developer of several seminal protein analysis and prediction tools and databases including SWISS-prot, PROSITE, ENZYME, and Expasy, and is one of Switzerland's most notable bioinformatics researchers.

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Ewan Birney

Ewan Birney is an Associate Director at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). Birney completed his doctorate at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, and his research interests include genomic variation, regulatory genomics, and next-generation sequencing data analysis. Birney has been a key player in several major genome projects and was involved in annotating the human, mouse, and chicken genomes, and was a leader of the Ensembl genome annotation project. Birney's outstanding contributions to genomics research have been recognized through several awards, including the 2005 ISCB Overton Prize.

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Nir Friedman

Nir Friedman is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering and the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Friedman earned his doctorate from Stanford University in Stanford, California, United States in the field of artificial intelligence, and he is well known for developing methods that apply Bayesian statistics to computational biology. Friedman's diverse research interests include molecular networks, epigenetics, cell regulation, and disease. Friedman's dual expertise in computation and biology has greatly influenced the scope of his research and strengthened his contributions to the computatational biology community.

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Robert Gentleman

Robert Gentleman is Senior Director of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Department at Genentech in San Fransisco, California, United States. Gentleman completed his doctorate in statistics from the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States and is well known for being an originator of the R programming language and Bioconductor, which are now some of the most widely used software programs in bioinformatics. Gentleman's research is focused on analyzing high throughput sequencing data to better understand biological mechanisms, including work on detecting low frequency mutations in tumors and gaining insight into RNA editing in various tissues.

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Andrej Sali

Andrej Sali is a Professor of Computational Biology in the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco, and California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences. Sali completed his doctorate in molecular biophysics at the University of London, United Kingdom. His research is focused on developing and applying computational methods based on the laws of physics and rules of evolution to predict protein structures, determine the structures of macromolecules, and annotate protein functions based on their structures. Sali has published over 300 papers, many of which are highly cited, and he has served the computational biology community as a member of several editorial boards, including PLOS Computational Biology and Molecular and Cellular Proteomics.