Since the first reports of AIDS, approximately 36 million people have died from the disease, with an estimated 35 million living with HIV. Drug therapy consists of HAART, highly active antiretroviral therapy, which slows progression of the disease and lessens risk of death. Today, researchers are closer than ever to finding a functional cure and…
We are delighted, once again, to be able to announce the winners of our annual ‘Faculty Member of the Year’ and ‘Associate Faculty Member Travel Grant’ awards. In addition, we’re thrilled to unveil a completely new award – Outstanding Faculty Member of 2013. These awards recognize the hard work of our Faculty Members and Associate…
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…
We’re very pleased to be able to congratulate three Members of F1000Prime that have been included by the Science Council in their list of the 100 leading UK practising scientists. The Science Council is a UK-based organisation whose aims are to “advance science and the application of science for society by bringing together a broad…
It is with great sadness that we note the death of F1000Prime Faculty Member Andrea Luigi Tranquilli, who passed away last week at the age of 58. Professor Tranquilli, a highly respected figure who specialised in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology, was the director of the obstetrics and gynaecology clinic at the University of…
Ali Mobasheri is a research scientist in the field of cartilage biology, and works at the University of Nottingham as well as the School of Pharmacy at the University of Bradford. Professor Mobasheri is also a Faculty Member in the Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology Faculty of F1000Prime. During a recent visit to our London office,…
We’ve hit a major milestone on F1000Prime – we’ve just published our 150,000th article recommendation! Submissions of article recommendations have risen each year since we launched F1000Prime in 2002: in 2013 we received a whopping 16,654 submissions. This has been possible because of continued growth in the numbers of Faculty Members who select articles –…
We were recently lucky enough to be visited in our London offices by two of the researchers that comprise the F1000 Faculty. Here we have two video interviews with Faculty Members Mariann Bienz and Michael McDermott.
Here we have two more video interviews with the researchers and clinicians that make up the F1000Prime Faculty. This time we hear from Professor Ray Rodgers on ovarian physiology and Professor Pamela Flood on labour anaesthesia.
We would like to congratulate Pascale Cossart, Faculty Member in the Microbiology Faculty, on being awarded the Balzan Prize for her work in cellular microbiology and infectious diseases. She receives the award “for her seminal discoveries on the molecular biology of pathogenic bacteria and their interaction with host cells”. Her work on Listeria, among other…
