title: Overton Prize
text: # Overton Prize
  
  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 computational biology 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 G. Christian Overton [Wikidata] a major contributor to the field of bioinformatics 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 - Po-Ru Loh [Wikidata]
  * 2021 - Barbara Engelhardt
  * 2020 - Jian Peng [Wikidata]
  * 2019 - Christophe Dessimoz
  * 2018 - Cole Trapnell
  * 2017 - Christoph Bock
  * 2016 - Debora Marks
  * 2015 - Curtis Huttenhower
  * 2014 - Dana Pe'er
  * 2013 - Gonçalo Abecasis
  * 2012 - Ziv Bar-Joseph
  * 2011 - Olga Troyanskaya
  * 2010 - Steven E. Brenner
  * 2009 - Trey Ideker
  * 2008 - Aviv Regev
  * 2007 - Eran Segal
  * 2006 - Mathieu Blanchette
  * 2005 - Ewan Birney
  * 2004 - Uri Alon
  * 2003 - Jim Kent
  * 2002 - David Baker
  * 2001 - Christopher Burge
  