Biocatalysis Faculty Member Lynn Kamerlin and her Associate Faculty Member Klaudia Szeler came to visit us in the F1000 London office. Both are from Uppsala University, Sweden, where Lynn is an Associate Professor of Structural Biology. In the video below, Lynn and Klaudia talk about their research in computational biology, research that sits at the…
Erica Shaddock, Univerity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, has been an Associate Faculty Member in the Respiratory Disorders Faculty since 2008. She works with Faculty Member Charles Feldman to write article recommendations in the Respiratory Diseases Section. Recently, Erica visited us at the F1000 offices in London. Here she tells Publisher Kathleen Wets about her work…
Rashad Massoud has been a Faculty Member in the Public Health faculty since 2005. He visited the F1000 offices last week, and spoke to us about his public health work for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) around the globe. He advocates applying the science of epidemiology in order to strengthen and improve…
Tudor Badea, Faculty Member in Neuroscience, is a neuroscientist at the National Eye Institute at the NIH in Bethesda. Recently, F1000 Publisher Kathleen Wets visited him, and took this video of him talking about his research into ascertaining how retinal ganglion cells, cells that transmit the signal from the eye to the brain, participate in…
[pullquote]”We believe that if we can identify oligomers that can fold and function in the same ways as peptides and proteins do, these can be used for tremendous therapeutic benefit and would have the additional advantage of enhanced chemical diversity and enhanced stability in biological systems.”[/pullquote] Kent Kirshenbaum, professor of chemistry at New York University,…
Gillian Murphy is professor emeritus of cancer cell biology at Cambridge University. She visited F1000 Publisher Kathleen Wets at the F1000 offices last week. In this video, she tells us about her new role as joint Section Head of Cartilage Disorders and Osteoarthritis at F1000, and explains her previous research in extracellular matrix and proteinases…
The fungal pathogen Candida albicans is one of the most persistent yeast pathogens known to man. Most people associate it only with thrush, but, as Michelle Leach explains in the video below, it is actually the fourth most common hospital-acquired bloodstream infection and has a mortality rate of 40-70%. Michelle is a post-doctoral researcher at…
Toby Maher has been an F1000 Faculty Member in the Respiratory Diseases Faculty since 2011. Recently, F1000 Publisher Kathleen Wets visited him at the Royal Brompton hospital in London, where Maher is a clinician-scientist. During Kathleen’s visit, she bumped into Prince Charles, who just happened to be making an official visit as the same time!…
Recently, F1000 Publisher Kathleen Wets visited Dame Kay Davies in Oxford soon after she won the WISE Lifetime Achievement Award. The award celebrated her outstanding career in science, which inspired other women to follow in her footsteps. In Kathleen’s video, Dame Kay, an F1000 International Advisory Board Member, tells us about her almost 3 decades…
Heinz-Josef Lenz, Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine and Associate Director for Clinical Research at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, is one of the F1000 Section Heads for Gastrointestinal Cancers. In this video, Professor Lenz describes his multifaceted areas of interest, focusing on predictive biomarkers for gastrointestinal cancers and early drug development. Currently, Professor…
