Links within this page: Outstanding Contributions to the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Award | Ian Lawson Van Toch Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Paper | RCSB PDB Poster Prize | Royal Society of Chemistry Best Poster Prize
Outstanding Contributions to the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Award
The Outstanding Contributions to the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Award was initiated in 2015 to recognize members who have made beneficial and lasting contributions to the Society through their leadership, service, and educational work, or a combination of these three areas.
Scott Markel is the 2024 recipient of the ISCB Outstanding Contributions Award to be presented at ISMB 2024.
Scott Markel, PhD,BIOVIA R&D Software Engineering Director, Biosciences & Scientific Informatics, Dassault Systèmes
Scott Markel, Ph.D., is an R&D Software Engineering Director in Dassault Systèmes’ BIOVIA Biosciences & Scientific Informatics group. In this role he is responsible for Discovery Studio and Pipeline Pilot’s scientific functionality. He is a former member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the International Society for Computational Biology. Scott is on the editorial board of PLOS Computational Biology, co-editing the popular Ten Simple Rules series. He co-authored Sequence Analysis in a Nutshell: A Guide to Common Tools and Databases and co-edited In Silico Technology in Drug Target Identification and Validation.
Ian Lawson Van Toch Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Paper
The Outstanding Student Paper Award is given to the student who presents the most thought-provoking or original paper at the Conference, as judged by our panel of experts.
This award is given in memory of Ian Lawson Van Toch, a 23 year old Medical Biophysics graduate student at the University of Toronto who passed away in August 2007. Ian was fortunate to have already discovered his passion for computational biology and how it can - and will - lead to quantum breakthroughs in cancer research. This passion was sparked when Dr Igor Jurisica hired Ian to work in his lab at the Ontario Cancer Institute as a researcher during the summer of 2006. That introduction blossomed into a mentoring relationship that is so vital to helping young students launch their careers.
Our thanks go to the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation who has sponsored this award since 2008.
Past recipients of this special award include:
- ISMB/ECCB 2023 - Cassandra Burdziak, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States
- ISMB 2022 - Quentin Garrido, Université Gustave Eiffel, ESIEE Paris, LIGM, France
- ISMB/ECCB 2021 - Jamshed Khan, University of Maryland
- ISMB 2020 - Yannik Schälte, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany
- ISMB/ECCB 2019 - Torsten Gross, IRI Life Sciences, Humboldt University, Germany and
Dinithi Sumanaweera, Monash University, Australia - ISMB 2018: Rani Powers, University of Colorado, United States
- ISMB/ECCB 2017: Kymberleigh Pagel, Indiana University, United States
- ISMB 2016: Yaron Orenstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
- ISMB/ECCB 2015: Farhad Hormozdiari, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
- ISMB 2014: Andrey D. Prjibelski, St. Petersburg Academic University, Russia
- ISMB/ECCB 2013: Wyatt Clark, Indiana University, United States
- ISMB 2012: Deniz Yorukoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
- ISMB/ECCB 2011: Sara Berthoumieux, Inria, France
- ISMB 2010: Keren Yizhak, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- ISMB/ECCB 2009: Manfred Claassen, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- ISMB 2008: Lucas Ward, Columbia University, United States
The RCSB PDB Poster Prize will be awarded for the best poster related to structure and function prediction. The award will consist of a related educational book.