ISCB Fellow
Award
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ISCB Fellowship is an award granted to scientists that the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) judges to have made "outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics".[1] As of 2025[update], there are 161 Fellows of the ISCB including Michael Ashburner, Alex Bateman, Bonnie Berger, Helen M. Berman, Steven E. Brenner,[2] Janet Kelso, Daphne Koller, Michael Levitt, Sarah Teichmann, Janet Thornton, and Shoshana Wodak.[1] See List of Fellows of the International Society for Computational Biology for a comprehensive listing.
| ISCB Fellowship | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | "outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics"[1] |
| Date | 2009 |
| Location | Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology |
| Presented by | International Society for Computational Biology |
| No. of Fellows | 161, as of 2025[update] |
| Website | www |
Fellows of the International Society for Computational Biology
The first seven fellows of the ISCB were laureates of the ISCB Senior Scientist Award from 2003 to 2009:
- Webb Miller[3]
- David Haussler[4]
- Temple F. Smith[5]
- Michael Waterman[6]
- Janet Thornton
- David J. Lipman
- David Sankoff[1]
Since 2009, new fellows have been nominated from the community of ISCB members and voted on annually by a selection committee. New fellows are traditionally inaugurated at the annual Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference.[7]
