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 Attwood 2021 Outstanding Contribution to ISCB; University of Manchester United Kingdom |  Niko Beerenwinkel ETH Zurich; Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Switzerland |  Peer Bork 2021 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; EMBL Germany |  Barbara Engelhardt 2021 Overton Prize; Gladtsone Institutes; Stanford University USA |  Tao Jiang University of California Riverside USA |  Carl Kingsford Carnegie Mellon University USA |
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 Eugene V Koonin National Institutes of Health USA |  Doron Lancet Weizmann Institute of Science Israel |  Philippe Lemey KU Leuven Belgium |  Scott Markel Dassault Systemès USA |  Peter Park Harvard Medical School USA |  Natasa Przulj ICREA Research Professor, Barcelona Supercomputing Center Spain |
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 Torsten Schwede University of Basel; Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Switzerland |  Michael J E Sternberg Imperial College London United Kingdom |  Fengzhu Sun University of Southern California USA |  Mihaela Zavolan University of Basel; Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Switzerland |
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PREVIOUS YEARS
 2023 Bissan Al-Lazikani UT MD Anderson Cancer Centre USA |  2010 Russ B. Altman 2018 Outstanding 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 |
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 2014 Amos Bairoch Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Geneva Switzerland |  2013 Pierre Baldi University of USA |  2017 Alex Bateman EMBL-EBI UK |  2020 Serafim Batzoglou 2016 ISCB Innovator Award; Stanford, DNAnexus, Insitro USA |  2012 Bonnie Berger 2019 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA |  2016 Helen Berman Rutgers University USA |
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 2014 Ewan Birney 2005 Overton Prize; EMBL-EBI UK |  2020 Judith Blake 2020 Outstanding Contribution to ISCB; The Jackson Laboratory USA |  2020 Mark Borodovsky Georgia Institute of Technology USA |  2011 Philip E. Bourne UVA Data Science Institute, University of Virginia USA |  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 |
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 2022 Barbara Bryant 2019 Outstanding Contribution to ISCB; Constellation Pharmaceuticals USA |  2021 Atul Butte University of California, San Francisco USA |  2017 Andrea Califano Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center USA |  2020 Rita Casadio University of Bologna Italy |  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 |
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 2023 Ana Conesa Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (CSIC) Spain |  2023 Lenore Cowen Tufts University USA |  2021 A. Keith Dunker Indiana University School of Medicine USA |  2011 Richard Durbin University of Combridge, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute UK |  2022 Sean Eddy Harvard University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute USA |  2013 David Eisenberg 2013 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California Los Angeles USA |
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 2023 Arne Elofsson Stockholm University Sweden |  2019 Eleazar Eskin University of California Los Angeles USA |  2020 Paul Flicek EMBL-EBI UK |  2014 Nir Friedman Hebrew University Israel |  2018 Terry Gaasterland University of California San Diego USA |  2022 Mikhail Gelfand Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Institute for Information Transmission Problems Russia |
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 2014 Robert Gentleman Harvard Medical School, 23andMe USA |  2015 Mark Gerstein Yale University USA |  2022 Takashi Gojobori King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Saudi Arabia |  2020 Osamu Gotoh CBRC Japan |  2016 Dan Gusfield University of California Davis USA |  2021 Eran Halperin University of California, Los Angeles USA |
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 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 |  2021 Wolfgang Huber European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL) Germany |  2010 Lawrence Hunter 2015 Outstanding Contribution to ISCB; University of Colorado School of Medicine USA |
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 2022 Trey Ideker 2009 Overton Prize; University of California, San Diego USA |  2020 Rafael Irizarry Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard T.S. Chan School of Public Health USA |  2021 Sorin Istrail Brown University USA |  2022 David Jones University College London, Bloomsbury Centre for Bioinformatics United Kingdom |  2013 Minoru Kanehisa Kyoto University Japan |  2012 Peter Karp SRI International USA |
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 2016 Janet Kelso MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology Germany |  2023 Oliver Kohlbacher University of Tübingen Germany |  2017 Daphne Koller Insitro USA |  2017 Anders Krogh University of Copenhagen Denmark |  2015 Thomas Lengauer Max-Planck Institute for Informatics Germany |  2021 Christina Leslie Memorial Sloan Kettering USA |
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 2015 Michael Levitt Stanford University USA |  2022 Fran Lewitter 2017 Outstanding Contribution to ISCB; Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research USA |  2021 Ming Li University of Waterloo Canada |  2023 Heng Li Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medicine School USA |  2016 Michal Linial The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel |  2009 David Lipman 2004 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; Impossible Foods USA |
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 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 |  2022 Jun Liu Harvard University USA |  2021 Nuria Lopez-Bigas 2022 ISCB Innovator Award; Institute for Research in Biomedicine Barcelona USA |  2018 Hanah Margalit Hebrew University Israel |  2022 Debora S. Marks 2016 Overton Prize; Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine USA |  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 |  2021 John Moult University of Maryland USA |  2010 Eugene Myers 2014 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; MPI-CBG Germany |
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 2023 Luay Nakhleh Rice University USA |  2017 William S. Noble 2019 ISCB Innovator Award; University of Washington USA |  2013 Ruth Nussinov 2018 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; Tel Aviv University & National Cancer Institute USA |  2016 Christine Orengo University College London UK |  2023 Francis Ouellette Bioinformatics.ca Canada |  2017 Lior Pachter Caltech USA |
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 2020 Laxmi Parida IBM T J Watsonb Research Center USA |  2021 Dana Pe'er 2014 Overton Prize; Memorial Sloan Kettering USA |  2018 William Pearson University of Virginia USA |  2012 Pavel Pevzner 2017 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; University of California San Diego USA |  2020 Katherine Pollard Gladstone Institutes, University of California San Francisco USA |  2022 Mihai Pop University of Maryland, College Park USA |
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 2021 Teresa Przytycka National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institute of Health USA |  2023 Shoba Ranganathan Macquarie University Australia |  2020 Ben Raphael 2021 ISCB Innovator Award; Princeton University USA |  2016 Aviv Regev 2017 ISCB Innovator Award, 2008 Overton Prize; The Broad Institute USA |  2015 Burkhard Rost 2016 Outstanding Contribution to ISCB; Technical University Munich/Columbia University Germany |  2021 Eytan Ruppin National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health USA |
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 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 |  2022 Reinhard Schneider 2022 Outstanding Contribution to ISCB; Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg Luxembourg |
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 2023 Russell Schwartz Carnegie Mellon University USA |  2012 Ron Shamir 2022 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; Tel Aviv University Israel |  2023 Roded Sharan Tel Aviv University Isreal |  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 |
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 2016 Lincoln Stein Ontario Institute for Cancer Research Canada |  2021 Gustavo Stolovitzky Sema4 USA |  2010 Gary Stormo Washington University School of Medicine USA |  2016 Sarah Teichmann Welcome Trust Sager Institute. EMBL-EBI UK |  2023 Fabian Theis Helmholtz Munich Computational Health Center Germany |  2009 Janet Thornton 2005 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; EMBL-EBI UK |
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 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 |  2017 Tandy Warnow University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign USA |  2009 Mike Waterman 2006 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award; University of Southern California USA |
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 2020 Zhiping Weng University of Massachusetts Medical School 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 |  2023 Cathy Wu University of Delaware USA |  2023 Jinbo Xu Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago USA |  2020 Xuegong Zhang Tsinghua University China |
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 2023 Jinghui Zhang St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital USA |
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