This is a guest post from Cristiana Santos de Macedo, a Research Fellow from the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, who works with Faculty Member Carlos Morel in the Global Health section of the Public Health & Epidemiology Faculty at F1000Prime. Here, Cristiana tells us of her experiences with the Brazilian Government scholarship program…
A round-up of the most popular Tweets from @F1000, as well as our picks from the rest of Twitter.
It is with great sadness that we note the death of Dick Heinegård, former F1000Prime Section Head in Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, who passed away on May 1st. Dick Heinegård was Professor of Medical and Physiological Chemistry at Lund University in Sweden from 1983, and joined F1000Prime in 2005 as head of the Cartilage Disorders…
At the end of April, the National Academy of Sciences announced 84 new members and 21 foreign associates to join the ranks of its current members, individuals who are recognized for their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research”. We are delighted to congratulate the following F1000Prime members on their election to this prestigious group…
Advice to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on data release from clinical trials, published last week, should ultimately help to improve healthcare but reveals widely divided opinion on exactly how data sharing should happen. The advice documents cover different aspects of clinical data sharing and reuse. Five advisory groups discussed: protecting patient confidentiality, data formats,…
Here are our most popular tweets, as well as some other interesting picks, from the past week on the @F1000 Twitter feed
Many thanks to all our Twitter followers who indulged us on Friday and sent in their best science-related jokes. Having laughed (and groaned) our way through the entries, we’ve now picked our favourites. The winners will be notified on Twitter, and will each receive a tin of luxury biscuits from Fortnum & Mason – biscuits…
A round up of the week’s most popular Tweets from @F1000, as well as our picks from the rest of Twitter…
Sadly, we note the death of Dr Daniel Traber, former Faculty Member in Critical Care & Emergency Medicine, who passed away in September last year. Dr Traber worked for over 50 years at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) as a professor and research scientist of anaesthesiology and neuroscience, and joined the Metabolic Disorders…
Here are this week’s top picks from the @F1000 feed over the past week, and few other stories we spotted on Twitter…
