2017 ISCB Innovator Award: Aviv Regev.

Christiana N. Fogg,Bonnie Berger,Diane E. Kovats

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005558

Abstract

2017 marks the second year of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Innovator Award, which recognizes an ISCB scientist who is within two decades of having completed his or her graduate degree and has consistently made outstanding contributions to the field. The 2017 winner is Dr. Aviv Regev, Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a Core Member and Chair of the Faculty of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and an HHMI Investigator. Regev will receive her award and deliver a keynote address during International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology/European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB) 2017 in Prague, Czech Republic (July 21 - 25, 2017).

Highlights

2017 marks the second year of the ISCB Innovator Award, which recognizes an International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) scientist who is within 2 decades of having completed his or her graduate degree and has consistently made outstanding contributions to the field
Regev completed her PhD in 2002 and was selected to be a Bauer Fellow at the Center for Genomics Research at Harvard University, which gave her an intellectual community as well as freedom and funding to build a small independent research group. She continued to pursue her interest in modelling cell circuits using gene expression and genomic data, and with her colleagues, she developed several widely used algorithms and computational tools, including Module Networks and Synergy
At Broad, Regev was recently appointed chair of the faculty, and in this role, she has been focusing on initiatives to strengthen and build communities around computational biology and advance software engineering approaches to biological data analysis

Summary

Introduction

2017 marks the second year of the ISCB Innovator Award, which recognizes an International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) scientist who is within 2 decades of having completed his or her graduate degree and has consistently made outstanding contributions to the field. The 2017 winner is Dr Aviv Regev, Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a core member and chair of the faculty of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator.

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