Laureates

• 2002 - Michael B. Eisen
  Michael Eisen
  Michael Eisen is an American biologist. He is currently an Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Associate Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development at University of California, Berkeley...
  
  
• 2003 - Jim Kent
  Jim Kent
  William James Kent is an American research scientist and computer programmer. He has been a contributor to genome database projects and the 2003 winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award .- Early life :...
  
  
• 2004 - Lincoln D. Stein
  Lincoln Stein
  Professor Lincoln D. Stein is a scientist and leader in bioinformatics and computational biology at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. Current projects include Reactome, WormBase,, BioPerl, , ENCODE , the Generic Model Organism Database and Cloud computing...
  
  
• 2005 - Ewan Birney
  Ewan Birney
  Ewan Birney is a senior scientist at the European Bioinformatics Institute and joint head of the Protein And Nucleic Acids group with Rolf Apweiler. The PANDA group is responsible for the widely used Ensembl genome browser, and highly-cited research on, for example, sequence analysis tools...
  
  
• 2006 - Michael Ashburner
  Michael Ashburner
  Michael Ashburner FRS is a biologist and emeritus Professor in the Department of Genetics at University of Cambridge. He is also the former joint-head of the European Bioinformatics Institute of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory .Born in Sussex, England, Ashburner attended High Wycombe...
  
  
• 2007 - Sean Eddy
  Sean Eddy
  Sean R. Eddy is a scientist who leads a research group at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Farm Research Campus in Virginia, with interests in bioinformatics, computational biology and biological sequence analysis...
  
  
• 2008 - Robert Gentleman
  Robert Gentleman (statistician)
  Robert C. Gentleman is a Canadian statistician and bioinformatician currently working for Genentech. He is recognized, along with Ross Ihaka, as one of the originators of the R programming language and associated software packages like Bioconductor. He got his Ph.D...
  
  
• 2009 - Philip E. Bourne
  Philip Bourne
  Philip Eric Bourne is a professor of pharmacology at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego ....
  
  
• 2010 - Alex Bateman
• 2011 - Jonathan Eisen
  Jonathan Eisen
  Jonathan A. Eisen is an American evolutionary biologist, currently working at University of California, Davis. His academic research is in the fields of evolutionary biology, genomics and microbiology and he is the academic editor-in-chief of the open-access journal PLoS Biology.In 2011 Eisen was...