Ned Seeman is the Margaret and Herman Sokol Professor of Chemistry at New York University, and one of the Section Heads for Biomimetic Chemistry in the Chemical Biology Faculty of F1000Prime. We were lucky enough to have Professor Seeman visit us at our London offices recently, and in this video he tells us of the…
A guest post by Alberto Perez
In October, Kevin Boyack, Richard Klavans, Aaron A. Sorensen and John P.A. Ioannidis published a list of the most influential biomedical researchers in the European Journal of Investigation. To compile this list, they utilised Scopus citation data collected from 1996-2011, taking into account every author’s h-index and also how frequently their work had been cited…
The John Maddox Prize for standing up for science is an annual award given to individuals who have personally defended sound science for the benefit of the public. Named after the late Sir John Maddox, a former editor of Nature and fiery Welsh bête-noir of pseudo-science, the prize is jointly awarded by Nature, the Kohn…
Jonathan Ashmore, Professor of Biophysics at University College London, is Section Head for Sensory Systems in the Neuroscience Faculty of F1000Prime. In this interview, Professor Ashmore gives an overview of his work on the cellular mechanisms of hearing. In particular, Professor Ashmore’s lab is interested in how sound is amplified by the outer hair cells…
In September, the US National Institutes of Health announced the winners of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, a grant for future research aimed at “supporting individual scientists of exceptional creativity, who propose pioneering – and possibly transforming – approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research”. We’re delighted that among the recipients this year…
Kim Barrett, Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, is an epithelial biologist and member of the Gastroenterology & Hepatology Faculty of F1000Prime. In this video, Professor Barrett describes her work on host-pathogen interactions, specifically on how the bacteria Salmonella affect the molecular pathways of the epithelium and the pathophysiology of the…
We are delighted to congratulate Michael Levitt, F1000Prime Faculty Member in Structural Biology, on receiving the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Professor Levitt, who is currently based at the Stanford University School of Medicine and is well known for his pioneering work in computational structural biology, receives this accolade jointly with Arieh Warshel, former Faculty…
We are delighted to be able to congratulate Randy Schekman, one of the Heads of Faculty for Cell Biology at F1000Prime, on being awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Professor Schekman was awarded the prize jointly with James Rothman and former F1000Prime Faculty Member Thomas Südhof “for their discoveries of machinery regulating…
Congratulations to F1000Prime Hematology Faculty Member Eirini Papapetrou on receiving the New Scholar Award in Aging from the Ellison Medical Foundation for Haploinsufficiency of protein-coding genes as an age-related disease mechanism. The New Scholars in Aging Award is given to candidates selected from medical institutions in the US on an invitation-only basis. The award supports…
