The International Society for Computational Biology has elected Professor Barry Honig to its 2016 ISCB Class of Fellows. The award recognizes distinguished ISCB members who shown excellence in research and/or service to the computational biology community. Dr. Honig’s award acknowledges his “seminal contributions to protein structure prediction and molecular electrostatics, and his more recent work on protein function prediction, protein-DNA recognition, and cell-cell adhesion.”

The International Society for Computational Biology is the largest professional society for scientists working in the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics. The 2016 Class of Fellows will be presented at its annual Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference, to be held July 8-12, 2016 in Orlando, Florida.

Barry Honig has been a professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons since 1981 and is director of the Department of Systems Biology's Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (C2B2). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator. He is recipient of the Founders Award of the Biophysical Society, the Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophsyics from National Academy of Sciences, Christian B. Anfinsen Award from the Protein Society, and DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Biophysical Society.

Visit the ISCB website to see the full list of 2016 ISCB Fellows, as well as the list of Fellows named in previous years.