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It’s nearly a year since we launched our F1000 Specialists community programme. Today we celebrate our 200^th Specialist – congratulations Vinod Saladi. Vinod is a Medical Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School working on the mechanism by which epigenetic factors mediate the transcriptional reprogramming in squamous cell cancers.

Vinod joined the Specialists programme after following F1000Prime for more than a decade. He finds the “excellent reviews on various research articles very helpful”. Vinod has been looking to get better connected with F1000 and saw the F1000 Specialists programme advertised on Linked In and “thought it was a nice chance to get associated with F1000” – welcome aboard Vinod!

This year we’re excited to be able to call upon our F1000 Specialists to help us develop a new reference management tool. A few weeks ago, we held our first focus group at our London Office, and we’re now looking forward to welcoming local US users to our New York Office for the same reason. Our reference management tool is currently under development, but we’re giving exclusive previews at our focus groups to whet our user’s appetites for things to come.

Later this year, we’ll be giving all our Specialists exclusive access to test these tools before their public launch. If you want to get involved with publishing innovations, join the F1000 Specialists team.