In anticipation of the Nobel prizes next month, last week the Annals of Improbable Research awarded the 2014 Ig Nobel Prizes. The Ig Nobels aim to honour “achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.” This year’s winner are no exception, with studies such as the solemnly named “Nasal Packing With Strips…
Joan Brugge, one of our Section Heads for the Cell Biology Faculty, will receive the Susan G. Komen® Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction in Basic Science. This award is bestowed upon those whose work in breast cancer research provides significant contributions to the field, and it is separated into a basic science award, which Joan…
Securing a grant for scientific research is, more often than not, long, long-winded and by no means an easy feat. Recent Lasker award winner and F1000 IAB member Mary-Claire King‘s journey towards getting the grant that led to her discovery of the BRCA1 gene was a little more eventful than most. In a series of…
The Lasker Foundation awards, popularly known as the ‘American Nobels,’ one of the most prestigious honours in science and medicine, were announced today. we are extremely pleased to congratulate F1000 Faculty Peter Walter and Mary-Claire King for winning awards! Mary-Claire King, is American Cancer Society Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Department of…
The American Chemical Society recently announced the recipients of the 2015 National Awards, and we are pleased to be able to say that two of those recipients are from the F1000 Faculty. Professor Eric Kool, an F1000 Section Head in Chemical Biology, wins the 2015 Ronald Breslow Award for outstanding contributions to the field of…
Head of Faculty Philip Ingham has been awarded the 2014 Waddington medal from the British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB). Ingham is the Toh Kian Chui Distinguished Professor and Vice Dean research at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore, and has been with F1000 since its birth in 2011. The Waddington medal is…
Our congratulations to F1000 Section Head Tony Hunter, who has been awarded the 2014 Royal Medal for biological sciences by the Royal Society. Tony Hunter is director of Salk’s NCI-designated Cancer Center and has been on the F1000 Faculty since its conception in 2001*. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society and a…
Pharmacology Faculty Member Mark Millan has won the 2014 Ariens Prize. The award is an annual prize organized by the Dutch Pharmacological Society in memory of the Dutch pharmacologist, Everhardus Jacobus Ariens, who made important contributions to understanding of the function of receptors in the field of pharmacology. Prize-winners are invited to present the Ariens…
The Academy of Medical Sciences recently elected 44 new Fellows to its academy, and we are delighted that a good handful of F1000Prime Section Heads and Faculty Members were on this list. Many congratulations to the following F1000Prime Faculty! Section Heads Janet Thornton, Bioinformatics (Genomics & Genetics) Sebastian Johnston, Respiratory Infections, (Respiratory Disorders) Angus Lamond,…
Founded in 1913, the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) is one of the foremost organisations serving the vast and ever-changing field of immunology. It is also the organisation behind the publication The Journal of Immunology, the most highly cited journal in this area of study. Every year, the AAI presents career awards to honour outstanding…
