It is with regret that we mark the death, last month, of Francesco Minuto, Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Genoa and Faculty Member in the Neuro-Endocrinology & Pituitary Section of the Diabetes & Endocrinology Faculty of F1000Prime. Our sincere condolences to his family and colleagues.
Students and postdocs joined us on the @F1000Tips Twitter account on February 19th for a live tweet chat using the #F1000Talks hashtag to discuss the issues facing PhD candidates in today’s scientific climate. Our special guests were Dr Hashem A. Dbouk @hashemdbouk from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and graduate student Jeremy Fagan…
Here are this week’s most popular recommendations from the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting Tweets we spotted…
Today we’re introducing the first in a regular series of listings of the most influential papers in different areas of biology and medicine (F1000Prime Faculties). With the 21st International Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference (#tricon) taking place this month in San Francisco, we’re starting with articles published in the field of Molecular Medicine. This Top 10 comprises…
Calling all life science and clinical researchers at Durham University, your trial to F1000Prime is active and allows you full access to all content in F1000Prime! This includes F1000Journal Clubs – our recently launched tool for creating, organizing, and sharing the outputs of your journal club meetings.
Respected business leader and web entrepreneur Daniel Marovitz has joined F1000 as Chief Executive Officer. [Full press release here.] Working closely with and reporting to Vitek Tracz, Daniel will have responsibility for all aspects of the F1000 businesses. He brings a wealth of experience in technology and Internet business, with a career spanning computer technology,…
After consultation with the biomedical community and our Faculty Members, we have concluded that there isn’t sufficient demand to fully launch F1000Trials. We will instead expand the medical coverage in F1000Trials’ sister service F1000Prime, by incorporating some of the content and useful features from F1000Trials within it. This will enable us to provide a more…
On February 26th we will hold the next F1000 community meet-up in Houston, Texas. This will be our fourth meet up, and we are excited to meet local scientists at Trevisio restaurant for networking, talking science and science publishing. The meet up will be accompanied by drinks, snacks, and fun giveaways, as usual. Attendees will…
Here are this week’s most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
We’re very pleased to congratulate F1000Prime Section Head James Allison on being awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences in 2014. This annual prize is awarded by the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to “advancing breakthrough research, celebrating scientists and generating excitement about the pursuit of science as a…
