ISCB Fellow

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 (2009)
Location	Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology
Presented by	International Society for Computational Biology
No. of Fellows	161, as of 2025[update]
Website	www.iscb.org/cms_addon/fellow/iscb-fellows-program.php

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:

1. Webb Miller^[3]
2. David Haussler^[4]
3. Temple F. Smith^[5]
4. Michael Waterman^[6]
5. Janet Thornton
6. David J. Lipman
7. 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]