The 2013 Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists

The Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists is a new annual award set up jointly by Science/AAAS and SciLifeLab in order to provide extra encouragement to young scientists as they begin their scientific careers. Applicants submit a 1000-word essay, judged by an independent editorial team on the quality of research and the applicants’ ability…

F1000 on the go – #F1000Tour

Since our last #f1000tour update in January, we’ve planned a number of trips this summer/autumn. With our reference management tool under development and user testing commencing soon, the UK and US outreach team are visiting a number of institutes and conferences to engage life scientists with Faculty of 1000’s services and future products. You’ll find…

Jan Amlie

  It is with sadness that we note the death last month of Jan Amlie, professor at the Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital, Norway and Faculty Member in the Cardiovascular Disorders Faculty of F1000Prime.   Professor Amlie joined Faculty of 1000 in 2005 and has written over 30 article recommendations for F1000Prime. Professor Amlie…

Simon Levin wins 2014 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement

We’d like to congratulate Prof. Simon Levin, F1000Prime Section Head in Theoretical Ecology, on being awarded the 2014 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. The award recognizes his research into the complexity of species and ecosystems, and the relationships between them. The Tyler Prize is an international environmental award for environmental science, environmental health and energy,…

Announcing the 200th F1000 Specialist

It’s nearly a year since we launched our F1000 Specialists community programme. Today we celebrate our 200th Specialist – congratulations Vinod Saladi. Vinod is a Medical Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School working on the mechanism by which epigenetic factors mediate the transcriptional reprogramming in squamous cell cancers. Vinod joined the Specialists programme after following…