Isabelle Mansuy is September’s featured Faculty Member of the Month. She is a professor in neuroepigenetics at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich (double chair), is a Knight in the National Order of Merit and holds the Legion of Honour in France. Isabelle explains the importance of animal research to improve our understanding of epigenetic inheritance and as a diagnostic for trauma-related psychiatric disorders.
Subburaman Mohan is August’s featured Faculty Member of the Month. A Senior Research Career Scientist at the Veterans Administration (VA), currently the Director of the Musculoskeletal Disease Center at the VA Loma Linda Healthcare Systems. This summer he received the Louis V. Avioli Founders Award, adding to his collection of professional awards.
For World Hepatitis Day, F1000 Prime Faculty Member Ralf Bartenschlager, a molecular and cell biologist heading a virology research team at Heidelberg University and the German Cancer Research Center, discusses the most urgent needs to meet global viral hepatitis targets.
In honour of International Women in Engineering day on 23rd June, Chloe-Agathe Azencott is June’s featured Faculty Member of the Month. A research scientist at the Centre for Computational Biology of MINES ParisTech and Institut Curie (Paris, France) since 2013, her enthusiasm for problem solving and seeking new knowledge drew her into engineering.
Ferdinando Boero is May’s featured Faculty Member of the Month. He shares with us two of the most influential people for his research, Charles Darwin and Frank Zappa.
Nick Riddiford is a postdoc in developmental biology in Institut Curie in Paris. Last year he surveyed scientists to find out more about their working practices. He published his results on F1000Research as a research article. He explains more here about why he carried out the survey and what he thinks needs to change.
On World Malaria Day, Dr. Audrey Odom John and April’s Faculty Member of the Month shares her eureka moment that stimulated her interest in research and is now keen to harness parasite-specific processes to develop new ways to diagnose or treat malaria.
So, you have a great idea for a research project. Now you need funding to make it happen. But how? Where? From whom? Here, João Peres and Tiago Barros share their experiences of applying for research funding in order to help others embarking on the same journey.
Christina Halsey is March’s featured Faculty Member of the Month, a bit earlier in the month than usual but we are publishing today to coincide with International Women’s Day. Christina has Section Head for Pediatric Hematology in the Hematology Faculty since December 2015. Section Heads are leading experts in their field and are responsible for dividing their Section into topics and selecting suitable Faculty Members who will review the literature in each of the topic areas.
Lars Lund is February’s featured Faculty Member of the Month. He has been a Member of the Cardiovascular Disorders Faculty since April 2015. Faculty Members (FMs) are acknowledged experts invited to recommend the articles that are included in F1000Prime. They review the articles, write brief comments, and score the articles.
