DBDS Chair Sylvia Plevritis, PhD, has been elected to the 2026 class of fellows at the International Society for Computational Biology—a fellowship program that recognizes excellence in computational biology.
Plevritis, William M. Hume Professor in the School of Medicine, is being honored for her pioneering work in computational cancer biology. The society has cited her algorithmic contributions as having defined how the field integrates multi-omics, imaging, and clinical data, revealing the biological foundations of the tumor microenvironment and its relationship to patient outcomes. The society also said her work as chair of Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program and as inaugural associate director for Cancer AI has shaped the science and institutional infrastructure of the field.
“A devoted mentor, she has trained over 60 graduate-level researchers, more than 20 of whom are now faculty at leading universities.”
The ISCB will honor the new fellows at the ISMB 2026 conference in Washington, D.C., this July.