We are excited to announce the launch of F1000Prime’s newest Section: Exercise Physiology.
In this blog, our Director of Operations and Certified Personal Trainer Steven Lokwan Ph.D. explains why we decided to add this section and introduces the Section Heads as well as the inaugural Faculty Members.
Here at F1000Prime we are grateful for the work of our Faculty; without them we wouldn’t exist. They provide recommendations for articles along with explanations for their choices, identifying key papers week in, week out. Our Heads of Faculty work hard to ensure the scope of their Faculties and Sections truly reflect their fields and…
We are barely into the post-summer conference and awards season and the Lasker Awards have landed! The awards recognise basic medical research, and clinical medical research respectively, acknowledging a maximum of three recipients. The 2016 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award went to William G. Kaelin, Jr., Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for the…
Here at F1000Prime we are grateful for the work of our Faculty; without them we wouldn’t exist. They provide recommendations for articles along with explanations for their choices, identifying key papers week in, week out. Our Heads of Faculty work hard to ensure the scope of their Faculties and Sections truly reflect their fields and…
F1000Prime celebrates its 15th birthday and so, to celebrate this auspicious occasion, Steven Lokwan, Director of Operations, takes a nostalgic trip down memory lane to reminisce on how we got to where we are today. My, how quickly time passes! It’s hard to believe, but there was a time before F1000Prime or, as we knew it…
Congratulations to our Head of Neuroscience Faculty, Carla J Shatz, who has won this year’s Kavli Prize in Neuroscience. She shares the prize with Eve Marder, former Faculty Member of the Neuronal Signaling Mechanisms Section, and Michael M Merzenich ‘for the discovery of mechanisms that allow experience and neural activity to remodel brain function.’
We were sad to learn that Ilkka Hanski, Head of the Ecology Faculty, passed away on May 10th after a long illness. Dr Hanski joined F1000 as a Faculty Head in 2004. He was a highly renowned and widely cited ecologist, considered the father of metapopulation theory. A leading researcher in ecology and evolutionary biology, Ilkka Hanski was…
Last month, we were delighted to announce the winners of the AFM Travel Grants for 2015. This month we are celebrating the hard work of our Faculty Members in recommending articles of merit by announcing the winners of our ‘Faculty Member of the Year’ awards and ‘Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year’ awards.
F1000 award season is upon us again! Each year, we celebrate the work of our Associate Faculty Members (AFMs) by picking the winners of our AFM Travel Grant Awards. These awards are our way of acknowledging the significant and valuable contribution AFMs make evaluating the literature for F1000Prime. Any AFM who has published six or…
This is a guest post by F1000 Faculty Member Ferdinando Boero. Dr. Boero’s post is a commentary on a previously published article, Biomechanical Characteristics of Hand Coordination in Grasping Activities of Daily Living, Liu MJ, Xiong CH, Xiong L, Huang XL. PLoS ONE 2016; 11(1):e0146193.
