It is with sadness that we note the death of Faculty Member Christine Wijman, who passed away on the 28th of February. An expert in neurocritical care and Director of Critical Care Neurology at Stanford University, Dr Wijman joined the Cerebrovascular Disease Section of the Neurological Disorders Faculty of F1000Prime in September 2008. An obituary…
Congratulations go to Goncalo Abecasis, F1000Prime Faculty Member in the Physiogenomics section of the Physiology Faculty, who has been awarded the Overton Prize by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) last Tuesday. The Overton Prize is awarded each year by the ISCB to a scientist “who is recognized for outstanding accomplishment and significant contribution…
Announcing the winners of the 2012 ‘Faculty Member of the Year’ awards, aka the Finches.
Congratulations to Lewis Cantley, Section Head of the Cell Signalling section in Cell Biology, on being one of the first recipients of the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences last Wednesday.
It is with great sadness that we note the death of Faculty Member Kuan-Teh Jeang, who passed away on the 27th of January. Dr Jeang was a prominent researcher at the NIH for 27 years, and renowned for his work in retroviruses. He was also Editor-in-Chief of Retrovirology and an editorial board member of numerous…
It is with great sadness that we report the death of Faculty Member Bernard Caillou, who passed away in July 2012. Dr Caillou worked at the Institut Gustave Roussy for 40 years, and joined the Thyroid Section of the Diabetes & Endocrinology Faculty of F1000 in November 2011. Our sincere condolences to his family and…
A recent article recommended six times on F1000Prime describes two species of Acomys that shed and regenerate skin as a predator evasion technique – a rare trait in mammals.
This week, @F1000 was buzzing with the news of this year’s Nobel prize winners, and we’re honored to be congratulating two F1000 Faculty Members who were among the awardees. Elsewhere on the Twitternet, it seems we weren’t the only ones who had caught the ‘Nobel’ bug…
Recently, the US National Institutes of Health announced the winners of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award. This award is aimed at “supporting individual scientists of exceptional creativity, who propose pioneering – and possibly transforming – approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research”. These ‘awards’ are not for past achievements, but function as a…
We recently guest-posted on Terrapinn’s Total BioPharma blog about a paper demonstrating how ivermectin treatment interferes with genetic experimentation in transgenic mice. Here is the full post.
