Congratulations to the following F1000 Faculty Members who have been named as New Investigators for the Wellcome Trust. Juan Burrone, Neuroscience Jurg Bahler, Cell Biology Matteo Carandini, Neuroscience Fiona Powrie, Gastroenterology & Hepatology Wolf Reik, Genomics & Genetics The prestigious New and Senior Investigator Awards are given to outstanding researchers asking the most challenging research…
Mike Cunningham talks to F1000 about toxicology becoming a predictive science and how it will replace animal testing.
Faculty of 1000 Oncology Section Head Matti Aapro is a medical oncologist based at the Clinique de Genolier in Switzerland. In this video, he highlights a couple of important presentations at the 2011 European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress in Stockholm.
We’d like to congratulate the following F1000 Members, who have just been elected to EMBO. Bernard de Massy, Cell Biology Santiago Elena, Ecology Ian Hickson, Cell Biology Edvard I Moser, Neuroscience Maria Rescigno, Immunology David C Rubinsztein, Genomics & Genetics Norbert Perrimon, Developmental Biology
F1000 Member Jacques Bernier is a radiation oncologist. Here at the ESMO ECCO meeting in Stockholm he tells us of recent developments in head and neck oncology, specifically chemoradiation, radiation therapy with targeted therapy (Cetuximab), and combinations of the two. Chemoradiation therapy is significantly more efficacious than radiation therapy alone, but long-term complications in surviving…
At the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress in Stockholm last month, F1000 Member Manel Esteller received the 2011 European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) Cancer Researcher Award. In this short video, taken at the meeting, Manel tells us about his work on the epigenetics of cancer. Manel’s group demonstrated that…
After the excitement of the Nobels last week, we’d also like to extend our warmest congratulations to F1000 Members Carlos Bustamante (Genomics & Genetics) and Tamar Schlick (Structural Biology), who last week were appointed 2012 Fellows of the Biophysical Society. Fellowships are awarded based on the Fellows’ “demonstrated excellence in science, contributions to the expansion…
While we would like to congratulate Section Head in Innate Immunity Jules Hoffmann on sharing this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine, we are also saddened to learn of the death of co-laureate Ralph Steinman. We hope that the Nobel Assembly will stand by their decision to award the prize to Steinman. Update: I’m happy to…
F1000 Member Edvard Moser of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, was also at the EMBO 2011 meeting in Vienna. He works on how the brain generates a “map” of space. Kathleen got him to tell us about the discovery of grid cells and the amazing things that happen when rats navigate a changing…
F1000 Section Head Brett Finlay gave a talk at the EMBO 2011 meeting in Vienna, on microbiota. Here he tells us why this new field is so exciting. read Faculty of 1000 because you’re going to get lots of interesting hits… (Edit: Brett even has an IMDB entry!)
