Today is World Cancer Day. In light of this, we asked Elaine Holmes, Member of our Pharmacology & Drug Discovery Faculty, to give us an overview of biomarkers of cancer. Globally, cancer is among the leading causes of death with the number of new cases projected to rise to 22 million over the next two decades. …
Anja Bielinsky is January’s featured Faculty Member of the Month. She has been a Member of the Cell Biology Faculty since March 2012. Faculty Members (FMs) are acknowledged experts invited to recommend the articles that are included in F1000Prime. They review the articles, write brief comments, and score the articles.
Here at F1000Prime we are grateful for the work of our Faculty; without them we wouldn’t exist. They provide recommendations for articles along with explanations for their choices, identifying key papers week in, week out. Our Heads of Faculty work hard to ensure the scope of their Faculties and Sections truly reflect their fields and…
The Wolf Prize in Israel and the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize in Germany are both prestigious awards that are sometimes used as indicators of potential future chances of a Nobel Prize. We’re therefore very proud to find F1000 Faculty among this year’s winners of both prizes! Stuart Schreiber, Head of Faculty for Chemical…
It was a great start to the new year for some of our Faculty, whose work was recognized by none other than Queen Elizabeth II or President Obama. Georgina Mace (Faculty Member in Conservation & Restoration Ecology) was named Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the UK’s New…
We’re pleased to announce that Nobel Laureate and former NIH Director Harold Varmus has been appointed as Chairman of F1000’s International Advisory Board. The International Advisory Board advises F1000 on broad policy issues and on our development of new products and services, and assists in selecting the Heads of Faculty who oversee each of the…
Many congratulations to Ecology Section Head David Karl, who recently a Balzan prize in Oceanography. Prof. Karl is the Professor of Oceanography at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii, and Head of F1000’S Ecosystem Ecology Section. Karl won the Balzan Prize for fundamental contributions to the understanding of the…
We are sad to mark the passing of Nigel Clarke, Associate Professor at the University of Sydney and F1000 Faculty Member in the Neurological Disorders Faculty. Nigel was diagnosed with a brain tumour in June 2014 and, sadly, passed away on October 14th 2015. Russell Dale, Associate Dean at the University of Sydney described Nigel…
With regret, we mark the death of Michael Kilby, Faculty Member in the Infectious Diseases Faculty. Kilby was the chief of the Division for Infectious Diseases at the Medical University of South Carolina, and a renowned clinician in the field of HIV treatment. He passed away on the 10th August 2015. An obituary for Michael…
We were sad to learn that William E. Paul, Section Head for the Allergy & Hypersensitivity Section in the Immunology Faculty, passed away last week with acute myeloid leukemia. Dr Paul, who worked for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the NIH, was renowned in the field of immunology, and…
