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We’re pleased to announce that Nobel Laureate and former NIH Director Harold Varmus has been appointed as Chairman of F1000’s International Advisory Board.

The International Advisory Board advises F1000 on broad policy issues and on our development of new products and services, and assists in selecting the Heads of Faculty who oversee each of the 32 sections of F1000 Faculty Members.

Harold Varmus shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Michael Bishop, for the discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes. In addition to his productive research career, Varmus has been at the forefront of scientific publishing. When he was Director of NIH, he established PubMed Central, together with David Lipman. Soon after that, he co-founded Public Library of Science (now PLOS) with Pat Brown and Michael Eisen.

Commenting on his appointment as Chairman of the F1000 International Advisory Board, Varmus said: “I have worked for many years to help provide public or full open access to research articles and other materials that were once locked away behind subscription barriers. Recently, I have watched the development of F1000 with great interest. I am very much looking forward to working with the F1000 team, which is bringing many exciting innovations to the open science publishing world, especially F1000Research, a new and imaginative publishing platform on which pre-prints of research articles can be transformed into published articles with appended commentary.”

We look forward to working with him!