The Academy of Medical Sciences recently elected 44 new Fellows to its academy, and we are delighted that a good handful of F1000Prime Section Heads and Faculty Members were on this list. Many congratulations to the following F1000Prime Faculty! Section Heads Janet Thornton, Bioinformatics (Genomics & Genetics) Sebastian Johnston, Respiratory Infections, (Respiratory Disorders) Angus Lamond,…
Here are the week’s most popular tweets from @F1000, as well as other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
Founded in 1913, the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) is one of the foremost organisations serving the vast and ever-changing field of immunology. It is also the organisation behind the publication The Journal of Immunology, the most highly cited journal in this area of study. Every year, the AAI presents career awards to honour outstanding…
Here are the week’s most popular tweets from @F1000, as well as other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
Professor Sir Michael Marmot, our Head of Faculty in Public Health, will be interviewed by Kirsty Young on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs this Sunday. Sir Michael is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London and has spent his career investigating the key factors in leading a long and healthy life,…
The Shaw Prize was established in 2002 by the Hong Kong philanthropist Sir Run Run Shaw to recognize individuals who have made “outstanding contributions in academic and scientific research”. The prize is awarded annually in three categories, Astronomy, Life Science and Medicine, and Mathematical Sciences, and comes with a monetary award of one million…
Last week, we held a focus group with local scientists at our New York City office to discuss their experiences with reference management systems and give them a preview of F1000’s newest features in development. Here is a Storify of how the evening went down. Thanks to everyone who attended!
We are delighted to offer our congratulations to Tasuku Honjo and James Allison, both F1000Prime Immunology Section Heads, for being jointly awarded the Tang Prize in biopharmaceutical science earlier this month. James, who is chairman of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, was one of the scientists who discovered cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen-4…
Good news for asthma patients! Antibiotics may reduce airway remodeling caused by respiratory infections. https://t.co/CMbKpPtVDL — F1000Prime (@F1000) June 25, 2014 Stress affects oligodendrogenesis and neurogenesis in different ways, changing the 'mind map' in rats. https://t.co/T5fFeBL5GH — F1000Prime (@F1000) June 23, 2014 A little bit of running is good for a pathogen: how the bacterial…
Established in 1983, the International Burn Foundation (IBF) was created by Dr John Carlton Tanner Jr to promote the goals of the International Society for Burns Injuries (ISBI). To this end, Dr Tanner set up the Tanner-Vandeput-Boswick Burn Prize, named after Dr Jaques Vandeput, who co-developed the Tanner-Vandeput dermatome for expanding donor skin for use…
