Bruce Alberts wins 2014 AAAS Hauge Abelson prize

Bruce Alberts, a member of F1000’s International Advisory Board, has received the 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Hauge Abelson prize. Alberts is president emeritus of the National Academy of Sciences, professor emeritus in the department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, and former editor in chief…

David Tilman takes BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

David Tilman, Community Ecology & Biodiversity Section Head in the Ecology Faculty, has taken the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology for scientifically demonstrating how biodiversity makes ecosystems more stable, productive and resilient. Tilman, Regents professor at the University of Minnesota who also won a Balzan prize last year, published…

Philippa Marrack wins 2015 Wolf Prize

We are pleased to be able to say that Immunology Head of Faculty Philippa Marrack has jointly won the 2015 Wolf Prize in Medicine – a prestigious prize that recognises scientists at the top of their field. Marrack, from the National Jewish Medical and Research Center (NJMRC) in Denver, Colorado, shares the prize with two…