Biocatalysis Faculty Member Lynn Kamerlin and her Associate Faculty Member Klaudia Szeler came to visit us in the F1000 London office. Both are from Uppsala University, Sweden, where Lynn is an Associate Professor of Structural Biology. In the video below, Lynn and Klaudia talk about their research in computational biology, research that sits at the…
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…
We are sad to mark the death of Renal Pharmacology Section Head Russell Chesney. Dr Chesney was a pediatric nephrologist at Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee, as well as president of the American Pediatric Society and chairman of the American Board of Pediatrics. He joined F1000 as a Section Head in March…
This is a guest post by Microbiology Associate Faculty Member Michelle Leach, University of Toronto, who recently spent a few weeks interning at the BBC Science department. Here, she tells us about her experience and what she learned about disseminating science to a broad lay audience.
We welcome William (Bill) Catterall to F1000 as a Head of Faculty for Pharmacology & Drug Discovery. Professor Catterall joins fellow Heads of Faculty Floyd Bloom, Paul Insel and Leslie Iversen in this role. Catterall is a professor and chair at the University of Washington, and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and…
Erica Shaddock, Univerity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, has been an Associate Faculty Member in the Respiratory Disorders Faculty since 2008. She works with Faculty Member Charles Feldman to write article recommendations in the Respiratory Diseases Section. Recently, Erica visited us at the F1000 offices in London. Here she tells Publisher Kathleen Wets about her work…
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…
Associate Faculty Member and F1000 Specialist Jeffrey Hannah recently attended a meeting at the New York Academy of Sciences on emerging approaches to cancer immunotherapy. In this guest post, he tells us what he learned about the latest developments in this emerging field.
Rashad Massoud has been a Faculty Member in the Public Health faculty since 2005. He visited the F1000 offices last week, and spoke to us about his public health work for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) around the globe. He advocates applying the science of epidemiology in order to strengthen and improve…
