ISCB Innovator Award

ISCB Innovator Award
Awarded for	“leading scientists who are within two decades post-degree, who consistently make outstanding contributions to the field, and who continue to forge new directions”
Sponsored by	International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
First award	2016
Website	www.iscb.org/iscb-awards/iscb-innovator-award

The ISCB Innovator Award is a computational biology prize awarded annually to leading scientists who are within two decades post-degree, who consistently make outstanding contributions to the field, and who continue to forge new directions. ^[1] The prize was established by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2016 and is awarded at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference. The inaugural recipient was Serafim Batzoglou. ^[2]

Laureates

• 2024 Su-In Lee ^[3]
• 2023 Dana Pe'er ^[4]
• 2022 Núria López Bigas ^[5]
• 2021 - Benjamin J. Raphael ^[6]
• 2020 - Xiaole Shirley Liu ^[7]
• 2019 - William Stafford Noble ^[8]
• 2018 - M. Madan Babu ^{[9] [10]}
• 2017 - Aviv Regev ^[11]
• 2016 - Serafim Batzoglou ^[12]

Other ISCB prizes

• Overton Prize - "for outstanding accomplishment to a scientist in the early to mid stage of his or her career"
• ISCB Senior Scientist Award - "members of the computational biology community who are more than 12 to 15 years post-degree and have made major contributions to the field of computational biology through research, education, service, or a combination of the three"

See also

• List of biology awards

References

1. "ISCB Innovator Award". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
2. Fogg, Christiana N.; Kovats, Diane E. (7 July 2016). "2016 ISCB Innovator Award: Serafim Batzoglou". PLOS Computational Biology. 12 (7): e1004973. Bibcode:2016PLSCB..12E4973F. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004973 . PMC   4936665 . PMID   27389680.
3. "2024 ISCB Innovator Award: Su-in Lee". International Society for Computational Biology. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
4. Fogg, Christiana N.; Kovats, Diane E.; Vingron, Martin (June 2023). "2023 ISCB innovator award: Dana Pe'er". Bioinformatics. 39 (39): i7 –i8. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btad318. PMC   10311337 .
5. Fogg, Christina; Kovats, Diane; Vingron, Martin (July 2022). "2022 ISCB Innovator Award: Núria López-Bigas". Bioinformatics. 38 (38): i5 –i6. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btac336. PMC   9235513 . PMID   35758784.
6. "2021 ISCB Innovator Award: Ben Raphael, PhD". International Society for Computational Biology. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
7. "2020 ISCB Innovator Award: Xiaole Shirley Liu, PhD". International Society for Computational Biology. 2020. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
8. Kovats, Diane; Shamir, Ron; Fogg, Christiana (2019). "2019 ISCB Innovator Award recognizes William Stafford Noble". Bioinformatics. 8 (20): 5127–5128. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btz396. ISSN   2046-1402. PMC   6534072 . PMID   31164975.
9. Fogg, Christiana N.; Kovats, Diane E.; Shamir, Ron (2018). "2018 ISCB Innovator Award recognizes M. Madan Babu". PLOS Computational Biology. 14 (6): e1006164. Bibcode:2018PLSCB..14E6164F. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006164 . ISSN   1553-7358. PMC   5991638 . PMID   29879101.
10. "February 14, 2018: ISCB Congratulates the 2018 ISCB Award Winners!". iscb.org. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
11. "February 09, 2017: ISCB Announces 2017 Award Recipients". iscb.org. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
12. "2016 ISCB Innovator Award: Serafim Batzoglou". iscb.org. Retrieved 2 February 2017.