Alan Hall

With sadness, we mark the passing of Alan Hall, Head of the Cell Biology Faculty since the beginnings of F1000 in 2001. Alan was the Chairman of the Cell Biology Program at Sloan-Kettering, as well as editor in chief of the Journal of Cell Biology. He was best known for his discovery that Rho, a…

On the road again – #F1000Tour

We regularly visit our users and other scientists in their institutes or at conferences. Since we have a lot of visits coming up, in five countries, it’s time again for an “F1000 tour” post, so you can find out exactly where we’ll be the coming weeks. This post will be updated throughout May as more…

Rashad Massoud: public health in action

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: retinal ganglion cell research

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…

Kent Kirshenbaum: the interface between biological and synthetic chemistry

[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,…