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| 2018 Outstanding Contribution to ISCB Russ Altman |
2018 Outstanding Contribution to ISCB:
Russ Altman
The Outstanding Contributions to ISCB Award recognizes an ISCB member for her or his outstanding service contributions toward the betterment of ISCB through exemplary leadership, education, and service.
This award debuted in 2015, and the 2018 winner is Russ Altman.
Russ Altman, Professor, Director, Biomedical Informatics Training Program, Stanford University, Co-Principal Investagor, FDA Center for Excellence in Regulatory Science & Innovation
Recipient of ISCB Outstanding Contributions Award
Russ Altman is a professor of bioengineering, genetics, medicine, and biomedical data science (and of computer science, by courtesy) and past chairman of the bioengineering department at Stanford University. Altman received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1983, a Ph.D. in medical information sciences from Stanford in 1989 and M.D. from Stanford Medical School in 1990. He also became board certified in 1991 in internal medicine and in clinical informatics.
Altman was on the ISCB Board of Directors from 1997-2005, and the ISCB president from 2002-2005. He has provided service to the ISCB membership through his leadership in establishing and helping to organize the annual Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Altman is the Editor of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics (since 2009), and he is a current member of the editorial boards for many major journals in bioinformatics, including Bioinformatics and PLOS Computational Biology. He served on the steering committee for the IEEE-ACM Transactions on Computational Biology (TCBB) from 2009-2011. He is also an executive editor of Biomedical Computational Review, which covers the latest research wherever computation, biology, and medicine intersect.
Altman serves on the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director, Francis Collins (since 2012) and was Chair of the Science Board to the FDA Commissioner (2013-2014). He is a member of the
National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institutes of Medicine), Fellow of ISCB, Fellow of AAAS, Fellow of the American College of Physicians, Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, and Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. He is also the winner of the PECASE award.
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ISCB will present the Accomplishments by a Senior Scientist Award, Overton Prize, Innovator Award and Outstanding Contributions to ISCB Award, at ISMB 2018 (www.iscb.org/ismb2018), which is being held in Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 6 -10. Nussinov, Trapnell, and Babu will also present keynote addresses during the conference.
Full bibliographical articles profiling the award recipients will be available in the ISMB 2018 focus issue of the ISCB newsletter later this year, as well as the ISCB Society Pages in PLOS Computational Biology, OUP Bioinformatics, and F1000 Research ISCB Community Journal.
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