ISCB Innovator Award

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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 awarded2016
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]

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