Michelle Leach: Science at the BBC

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.

Recent Faculty awards

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…

Welcoming aboard new Heads of Faculty

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…

Welcoming Mu-ming Poo to the International Advisory Board

We are delighted to welcome eminent neurobiologist Professor Mu-ming Poo to the F1000 International Advisory Board. Mu-ming Poo is Director of the Institute of Neuroscience at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai and the Director of the CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology. He is also the Paul Licht Distinguished Professor…

Scatter plots, statin dosage, and how to win a Nobel Prize

The trending article recommendations on the @F1000 feed this week, as well as interesting picks from the science Twittersphere. Eyes on the Prize: what to do to nail that Nobel you always wanted https://t.co/IYq8pYqaRR — F1000 (@F1000) June 16, 2015 Statins, not sorcery: greater education of physicians needed to ensure high-risk patients receive high-dose statins.…

Queen's birthday honours 2015

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…