MARC (Minority Access to Research Careers) Travel Fellowship via FASEB

ISMB/ECCB 2027 — 35th Annual Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, flagship conference of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), held jointly with the European Conference on Computational Biology Europe
Amount

not published on the ISCB page (administered by FASEB under a long-term NIH grant)

Eligibility

Exclusively designated for minority scientists who are U.S. based, per the funding agency's terms. As a member society of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), ALL of ISCB's Society-run annual conferences are eligible venues: ISMB, Rocky, CSHALS, GLBIO, ISCB-Africa, ISCB-Asia, and ISCB-Latin America.

Deadline

not published on the ISCB page (deadlines are set by the FASEB MARC program, not by ISCB)

Application Requirements

not published on the ISCB page — application is made through the FASEB MARC travel fellowship program rather than through ISCB's conference fellowship system.

Notes

U.S.-based minority scientists only. This is a separate funding stream from the ISCB Conference Fellowship and is not administered by ISCB.

Conference Information

Dates: ISMB/ECCB 2027: July 18 – 22, 2027

Location: 2027: Bella Center Copenhagen, Denmark

Research match: Wishart has been an ISCB member since 2001. ISMB is the world's largest bioinformatics and computational biology conference and the natural venue for the database/tool side of his program — HMDB, DrugBank, NP-MRD, MiMeDB, MarkerDB, PathBank, PHASTEST, BASys2, PlasMapper, Heatmapper2 — plus AI/ML for spectra prediction (CFM-ID) and metabolite biotransformation prediction (BioTransformer). Relevant co-located tracks include 3DSIG (structural bioinformatics, matching his protein-NMR/structure work), CompMS (computational mass spectrometry), MLCSB (machine learning), Function SIG and ICBO (ontologies/biocuration). The 2028 edition in Calgary is a short domestic hop from Edmonton.

Conference links:

Canadian Bioinformatics Hub

CBH CIRCLE is an Affiliate Partner of the Canadian Bioinformatics Hub.