The ISCB Overton Prize is a computational biology prize awarded annually for outstanding accomplishment by a scientist in the early to mid stage of his or her career. Laureates have made significant contribution to the field of

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either through research, education, service, or a combination of the three. The prize was established by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in memory of a major contributor to the field of

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and member of the ISCB Board of Directors who died unexpectedly in 2000. The Overton Prize is traditionally awarded at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference.

Laureates

Laureates include *2022 - *2021 -

Barbara Engelhardt Barbara Elizabeth Engelhardt is an American computer scientist and specialist in bioinformatics. Working as a Professor at Stanford University, her work has focused on latent variable models, exploratory data analysis for genomics, genomic data, a ...

*2020 - *2019 - Christophe Dessimoz *2018 - Cole Trapnell *2017 - Christoph Bock *2016 - Debora Marks *2015 -

Curtis Huttenhower Curtis Huttenhower is a Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics in the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Harvard University. Education Huttenhower gained his BS from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2000 ...

*2014 -

Dana Pe'er Dana Pe'er (born 1971), Chair and Professor in Computational and Systems Biology Program at Sloan Kettering Institute is a researcher in computational systems biology. A Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator since 2021, she was prev ...

*2013 -

Gonçalo Abecasis Gonçalo Rocha Abecasis (born 1976) is a Portuguese American biomedical researcher at the University of Michigan and was chair of the Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health. He leads a group at the Center for Statistical Genetic ...

*2012 -

Ziv Bar-Joseph Ziv Bar-Joseph is an Israeli computational biologist and Professor in the Computational Biology Department and the Machine Learning Department at the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. Education Bar-Joseph studied computer science at Bac ...

*2011 - Olga Troyanskaya *2010 -

Steven E. Brenner Steven Elliot Brenner is a professor at the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at the University of California Berkeley, adjunct professor at the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at the University of California, and Sa ...

*2009 -

Trey Ideker Trey Ideker is a professor of medicine and bioengineering at UC San Diego. He is the Director of the National Resource for Network Biology, the San Diego Center for Systems Biology, and the Cancer Cell Map Initiative. He uses genome-scale measurem ...

*2008 -

Aviv Regev Aviv Regev (born July 11, 1971) is a computational biologist and systems biologist and Executive Vice President and Head of Genentech Research and Early Development in Genentech/Roche. She is a core member (on leave) at the Broad Institute of MIT a ...

*2007 -

Eran Segal Eran Segal ( he, ערן סגל; born 15 November 1973) is a computational biologist professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He works on developing quantitative models for all levels of gene regulation, including transcription, chromatin, a ...

*2006 - Mathieu Blanchette *2005 - Ewan Birney *2004 -

Uri Alon Uri Alon (Hebrew: אורי אלון; born 1969) is a Professor and Systems Biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. His highly cited research investigates gene expression, network motifs and the design principles of biological networks in ...

*2003 -

Jim Kent William James Kent (born February 10, 1960) is an American research scientist and computer programmer. He has been a contributor to genome database projects and the 2003 winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award. Early life Kent was born in Hawa ...

*2002 - David Baker *2001 -

Christopher Burge Christopher Boyce Burge is Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Education Burge completed his Bachelor of Science at Stanford University in 1990, and continued graduate studies in computational b ...

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