The recipients of the 2015 International Academy of Cardiology (IAC) awards were recently announced at the opening ceremony of the IAC Annual Scientific Sessions 2015, the 20th World Congress on Heart Disease. F1000 Section Head in Cardiovascular Disorders Michael E. Farkouh received the Jan J. Kellermann Memorial Award for distinguished work in the field of…
Lewis Cantley will receive the 2015 Canada-Gairdner Award in October, for his groundbreaking discovery of a family of enzymes that are fundamental to understanding cancer. Prof. Cantley has been a Section Head of the Cell Signalling Section since the beginnings of F1000 in 2001. He is the Meyer Director of the Sandra and Edward Meyer…
A number of our Faculty and International Advisory Board Members have received awards lately – congrats to all on these wonderful achievements! Dame Kay Davies, an International Advisory Board Member since 2011, has been awarded the American Society of Human Genetics’ (ASHG) William Allan Award. The award recognizes substantial and far-reaching scientific contributions to human…
We are happy to be able to congratulate two F1000 Faculty Members on receiving Queen’s birthday honours. Professor Helen Cross, Faculty Member within the Neurological Disorders Faculty, receives an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) for her services to children with epilepsy. Professor Cross is Prince of Wales Chair of Childhood Epilepsy…
EMBO today announced its new members for 2015. EMBO is an organization that aims to promote excellence in the life sciences, with over 1700 leading researchers. Among the 58 researchers honoured as members today, we are pleased to say that eight of these are F1000 Faculty. Please join us in congratulating these Faculty Members and…
Last week, the Royal Society announced its New Fellows for 2015. In the same week, the National Academy of Sciences announced its New Members and Foreign Associates. Both are highly prestigious and coveted honours, with eminent and celebrated scientists in their ranks. With this in mind, we are extremely pleased to announce that a number…
It’s F1000 award season once again, and up first are the winners of the 2014 AFM travel grants – a chance for us to show our appreciation for the invaluable contributions of our Associate Faculty Members (AFMs). We started the AFM travel grant fund in 2011 – for each recommendation added to F1000Prime in the…
Bruce Alberts, a member of F1000’s International Advisory Board, has received the 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Hauge Abelson prize. Alberts is president emeritus of the National Academy of Sciences, professor emeritus in the department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, and former editor in chief…
David Tilman, Community Ecology & Biodiversity Section Head in the Ecology Faculty, has taken the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology for scientifically demonstrating how biodiversity makes ecosystems more stable, productive and resilient. Tilman, Regents professor at the University of Minnesota who also won a Balzan prize last year, published…
We are pleased to be able to say that Immunology Head of Faculty Philippa Marrack has jointly won the 2015 Wolf Prize in Medicine – a prestigious prize that recognises scientists at the top of their field. Marrack, from the National Jewish Medical and Research Center (NJMRC) in Denver, Colorado, shares the prize with two…
