Our congratulations to two of our F1000 Members, Art Horwich and Ulrich Hartl, who have jointly been awarded the 2011 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. Art and Ulrich have been with Faculty of 1000 since the very beginning, in July 2001. The Award is in recognition of their work on protein folding, specifically their…
Thank you to Richard Wintle who has provided us with this guest blog post on operating core facilities… A recent Commentary in Science Translational Medicine by Gregory K. Farber and Linda Weiss, entitled Core Facilities: Maximizing the Return on Investment (abstract here; article is subscription-only) is an interesting read. In it, the authors outline not…
As Richard promised, here’s the latest guest blog post from Nando, his confessions of an F1000 addict… When I was invited to join F1000, I was very flattered of course. I knew about it, but I had no access to it. I have substantial experience in processing articles for journals; I even direct one (The…
We would like to extend our congratulations to Regina Fölster-Holst, Section Head in Pediatric Skin Diseases, for winning first prize in the “Science Interactive” competition. Run by Science in Dialogue, this is an initiative to bring scientists into conversation with “people of all ages and educational backgrounds”, “committed to the exchange and discussion of research…
Who is that handsome fellow? It’s one of our Associate F1000 Members (AFMs) wearing the world-famous F1000 T-shirt: Richard Wintle is an AFM in Genomics & Genetics, working with FM Steve Scherer to cover (among other things) the journals Nature Genetics and Genome Research. Richard is assistant director at the Centre for Applied Genomics, The…
F1000 Member of the moment has to be Paul Riley. Not only has he recently published a stunning piece of research, in which a ‘Smart trick’ was used to kick-start adult heart epicardial cells into an embryonic programme such that they were able to produce fully functional cardiomyocytes, but he’s also been awarded a new…
News like this always warms my heart. The Royal Society has announced this year’s awards, and there are three from the Nobel Factory(cite). Greg Winter receives the Royal Medal for interdisciplinary sciences (and perhaps also for surviving the LMB for nearly 40 years); Brad Amos has been invited to deliver the 2012 Leeuwenhoek Lecture in…
I’ve been playing with Google Plus, and we’re going to be putting a +1 button on our evaluations soon. We’re thinking about how we might use G+ in a way that’s beneficial to our Faculty Members as well as our users. Any thoughts, let us know. In the meantime, I’m rpgrant on google and you…
Sadly, we have to mark the recent deaths of two F1000 Members. Neuroscience Section Head David Colman died unexpectedly on 1st June, after apparently beginning to recover from an illness. He was Director of the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of McGill University and the McGill University Health Centre. His interests were in the interactions…
Did you catch the vaccine issue of The Scientist? It features F1000 Members Robin Weiss and Gene Shearer (with Adriano Boasso), writing about the history and future of vaccination and an unusual but potentially effective alternative vaccination strategy.
