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…
The Brain Prize, awarded annually by the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation, recognizes one or more scientists for their outstanding contribution to neuroscience, and is widely regarded as the equivalent for the Nobel Prize for neuroscientists. 2016’s Brain Prize is shared by three winners, and we’re delighted to congratulate F1000 Faculty Member Graham Collingridge,…
The Wolf Prize in Israel and the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize in Germany are both prestigious awards that are sometimes used as indicators of potential future chances of a Nobel Prize. We’re therefore very proud to find F1000 Faculty among this year’s winners of both prizes! Stuart Schreiber, Head of Faculty for Chemical…
It was a great start to the new year for some of our Faculty, whose work was recognized by none other than Queen Elizabeth II or President Obama. Georgina Mace (Faculty Member in Conservation & Restoration Ecology) was named Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the UK’s New…
Nadrian ‘Ned’ Seeman, professor of chemistry at New York University and Section Head of F1000’s Biomimetic Chemistry Section has won the 2016 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry. The Franklin Institutue has the aim of preserving Benjamin Franklin’s legacy by recognizing outstanding achievements in science, technology, and industry around the world. Professor Seeman was awarded the…
Many congratulations to Ecology Section Head David Karl, who recently a Balzan prize in Oceanography. Prof. Karl is the Professor of Oceanography at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii, and Head of F1000’S Ecosystem Ecology Section. Karl won the Balzan Prize for fundamental contributions to the understanding of the…
We’re pleased to announce that Beth Stevens, Neuroscience Faculty Member, has won a MacArthur grant and was inducted into the 2015 MacArthur fellowship. The MacArthur grants are often termed ‘genius grants’, and awardees receive $625,000 over five years. Stevens, an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital,…
In recent weeks, a handful of awards and honours have been bestowed on some of our wonderful F1000 Section Heads. Here, we celebrate their achievements.
Termed the ‘pre-Nobels’ because 50% of award winners go on to win a Nobel Prize, the 2015 Lasker awards were announced yesterday. I am pleased to say that two F1000 Faculty are among the recipients! Professor Stephen Elledge from the Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s hospital, and an F1000 Faculty Member in…
