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.
Fellows nominations will open in September 2017. The deadline to submit a nomination is 2 December 2017. Nominations for the selection of the 2017 Class of Fellows is now closed.
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).
- 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.
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
2017
Alex Bateman European Bioinformatics Institute-EMBL UK |
Andrea Califano Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center USA |
Daphne Koller Stanford University USA |
Anders Krogh University of Copenhagen Denmark |
William S. Noble University of Washington USA |
Lior Pachter Caltech USA |
Olga Troyanskaya Princeton University USA |
Tandy Warnow University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign USA |
PREVIOUS YEARS
2010 | 2015 | 2011 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2016 | 2014 |
Russ B. Altman Stanford University USA |
Rolf Apweiler European Bioinformatics Institute of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hinxton, UK |
Michael Ashburner 2011 ISCB Senior Scientist Award EMBL-EBI, UK |
Amos Bairoch University of Geneva, Switzerland |
Pierre Baldi University of California, Irvine USA |
Bonnie Berger Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
Helen Berman Rutgers University USA |
Ewan Birney European Molecular Biology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) UK |
2011 | 2016 | 2011 | 2015 | 2015 | 2011 | 2013 | 2014 |
Philip E. Bourne National Institutes of Health, USA |
Steven Brenner University of California, Berkeley |
Søren Brunak Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research Denmark |
Cyrus Chothia Wolfson College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK |
Julio Collado-Vides Center for Genomics Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico |
Richard Durbin Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK |
David Eisenberg 2013 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
Nir Friedman Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel |
2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2009 | 2015 | 2010 | 2016 | 2013 |
Robert Gentleman Genentech San Francisco, USA |
Mark Gerstein Yale University, New Haven USA |
Dan Gusfield University of California, Davis USA |
David Haussler 2008 ISCB Senior Scientist Award University of California, Santa Cruz, USA |
Desmond Higgins University College, Dublin Ireland |
Lawrence Hunter University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver USA |
Barry Honig Columbia University USA |
Minoru Kanehisa Kyoto University Japan |
2012 | 2016 | 2015 | 2015 | 2016 | 2009 | 2012 | 2013 |
Peter Karp SRI International USA |
Janet Kelso MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology Germany |
Thomas Lengauer Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany |
Michael Levitt Stanford University, Stanford, USA |
Michal Linial The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel |
David Lipman 2004 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) USA |
Jill Mesirov The Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard USA |
Webb Miller 2009 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; Pennsylvania State University, USA |
2013 | 2013 | 2012 | 2016 | 2012 | 2016 | 2015 | 2013 |
Satoru Miyano University of Tokyo, Japan |
Eugene Myers 2014 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; Howard Hughes Medical Institute-Janelia Farm Research Center, Ashburn, USA |
Ruth Nussinov Tel Aviv University, Israel and the National Cancer Institute |
Christine Orengo University College London UK |
Pavel Pevzner University of California, San Diego, USA |
Aviv Regev Broad Institute USA |
Burkhard Rost Technical University Munich, Germany |
Steven Salzberg Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine USA |
2014 | 2010 | 2009 | 2012 | 2016 | 2009 | 2016 | 2010 |
Andrej Sali University of California, San Francisco, USA |
Chris Sander 2010 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, USA |
David Sankoff 2003 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; University of Ottawa Université de Montréal Canada |
Ron Shamir Tel Aviv University Israel |
Sarah Teichmann EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute |
Temple Smith 2007 ISCB Senior Scientist Award Boston University USA |
Lincoln Stein Ontario Institute for Cancer Research Canada |
Gary Stormo Washington University, St. Louis, USA |
2009 | 2016 | 2010 | 2012 | 2012 | 2009 | 2016 | 2016 |
Janet Thornton 2005 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) UK |
Anna Tramontano University of Rome Italy |
Alfonso Valencia Spanish National Cancer Research Center and Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute, Madrid, Spain |
Martin Vingron Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany |
Gunnar von Heijne 2012 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; Stockholm University, Sweden |
Mike Waterman 2006 ISCB Senior Scientist Award; University of Southern California, USA |
Shoshana Wodak University of Toronto Canada |
Haim Wolfson Tel Aviv University Israel |