title: Message from the ISCB: 2015 ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award: Cyrus Chothia.
abstract: The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB; http://www.iscb.org) honors a senior scientist annually for his or her outstanding achievements with the ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award. This award recognizes a leader in the field of computational biology for his or her significant contributions to the community through research, service and education. Cyrus Chothia, an emeritus scientist at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology and emeritus fellow of Wolfson College at Cambridge University, England, is the 2015 ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award winner.Chothia was selected by the Awards Committee, which is chaired by Dr Bonnie Berger of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He will receive his award and deliver a keynote presentation at 2015 Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology/European Conference on Computational Biology in Dublin, Ireland, in July 2015.
  
  
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  dkovats@iscb.org.
authors.affiliation: Freelance Science Writer, Kensington, MD, USA and Executive Director, International Society for Computational Biology, La Jolla, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Christiana N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Fogg
authors.affiliation: Freelance Science Writer, Kensington, MD, USA and Executive Director, International Society for Computational Biology, La Jolla, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Diane E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Kovats
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D035843:Biomedical Research; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008967:Molecular Biology / Q000266:history*; D012958:Societies, Scientific