It is with great sadness that we note the death of Pharmacology & Drug Discovery Faculty Member Stephen A. Udem. Stephen joined F1000Prime in 2010. A native New Yorker, he was a student at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he became a professor 25 years later, and he also held positions at the…
The Lurie Prize in the Biomedical Sciences is an annual prize awarded by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), designed to honour outstanding achievement by a promising scientist age 52 or younger. Now in its second year, the $100,000 award was endowed by global philanthropist and biomedical research advocate Ann Lurie. This…
This is a guest post from Yan Zheng, an F1000Specialist. Yan graduated from Albert Einstein College of Medicine with a PhD in the Biomedical Sciences. Currently, Yan is doing a postdoc at New York University’s Langone Medical Center. Here, Yan interviews Pamela Stanley about her career path that led to her current research interests. Pamela…
We’re thrilled to be able to congratulate Trevor Robbins, Section Head for Behavioral Neuroscience at F1000Prime, on being awarded the prestigious ‘Brain Prize’. The Brain Prize is awarded by the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation in Copenhagen to one or more scientists who have distinguished themselves by making an outstanding contribution to European neuroscience.…
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…
We’re delighted by news that David Nutt, Edmond J. Safra Professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London, and Section Head in Psychiatry for F1000Prime, has been elected president of the European Brain Council (EBC). Founded in Brussels in 2002, the European Brain Council is a coordinating body that represents researchers in neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, basic…
Congratulations to Julian Davies, Head of Faculty in Microbiology and based at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, on receiving the 2013 American Society of Microbiology Lifetime Achievement Award! The award is bestowed upon those who make “sustained contributions to the microbiological sciences”, and it is not necessarily an annual honor. As part of…
A growing number of tools aim to help scientists filter and discover relevant papers and, in some cases, provide information on research impact not based on the Impact Factor. Amongst these alternative or article-level metrics tools is F1000Prime. F1000Prime adds expert commentary and context to the raw numbers – social media shares, page views, etc…
Follow an article If a user of F1000Prime follows an article it means he or she will be alerted to new recommendations and dissenting opinions on the article and user comments. To follow an article, click ‘Save to MyF1000/Follow’ on any article page (see below), while logged in. F1000Prime authors – of published papers recommended…
The Canada Gairdner International Award is an annual prize that recognises significant contributions by biomedical scientists to understanding, treating and curing human disease. Recipients are nominated and then selected by two panels of leading Canadian and international scientists, and many previous recipients have gone on to win the Nobel Prize. Congratulations to Stephen Elledge, Faculty…
