Overton Prize
Award
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The ISCB Overton Prize is a computational biology prize awarded annually for outstanding accomplishment by a scientist in the early to mid stage of their career. Laureates have made significant contribution to the field of computational biology either through research, education, service, or a combination of the three.[1]
| ISCB Overton Prize | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | “outstanding accomplishment to a scientist in the early to mid stage of his or her career” |
| Sponsored by | International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) |
| First award | 2001 |
| Website | www |
The prize was established by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in memory of G. Christian Overton[2] a major contributor to the field of bioinformatics and member of the ISCB Board of Directors who died unexpectedly in 2000.[1]
The Overton Prize is traditionally awarded at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference.
Laureates
Laureates include[1]
- 2025 - James Zou
- 2024 - Martin Steinegger (scientist)[1]
- 2023 - Jingyi Jessica Li[1][3]
- 2022 - Po-Ru Loh[4][5]
- 2021 - Barbara Engelhardt[6]
- 2020 - Jian Peng[7]
- 2019 - Christophe Dessimoz[8]
- 2018 - Cole Trapnell[9]
- 2017 - Christoph Bock[10]
- 2016 - Debora Marks[11]
- 2015 - Curtis Huttenhower[12][13]
- 2014 - Dana Pe'er[14]
- 2013 - Gonçalo Abecasis[15]
- 2012 - Ziv Bar-Joseph[16]
- 2011 - Olga Troyanskaya[17]
- 2010 - Steven E. Brenner[18]
- 2009 - Trey Ideker[19]
- 2008 - Aviv Regev[20]
- 2007 - Eran Segal[21]
- 2006 - Mathieu Blanchette[22]
- 2005 - Ewan Birney[23]
- 2004 - Uri Alon[24]
- 2003 - Jim Kent[1]
- 2002 - David Baker[1]
- 2001 - Christopher Burge[1]