We welcome William (Bill) Catterall to F1000 as a Head of Faculty for Pharmacology & Drug Discovery. Professor Catterall joins fellow Heads of Faculty Floyd Bloom, Paul Insel and Leslie Iversen in this role. Catterall is a professor and chair at the University of Washington, and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and…
Heinz-Josef Lenz, Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine and Associate Director for Clinical Research at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, is one of the F1000 Section Heads for Gastrointestinal Cancers. In this video, Professor Lenz describes his multifaceted areas of interest, focusing on predictive biomarkers for gastrointestinal cancers and early drug development. Currently, Professor…
Pharmacology Faculty Member Mark Millan has won the 2014 Ariens Prize. The award is an annual prize organized by the Dutch Pharmacological Society in memory of the Dutch pharmacologist, Everhardus Jacobus Ariens, who made important contributions to understanding of the function of receptors in the field of pharmacology. Prize-winners are invited to present the Ariens…
It is with great sadness that we note the death of Pharmacology & Drug Discovery Faculty Member Stephen A. Udem. Stephen joined F1000Prime in 2010. A native New Yorker, he was a student at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he became a professor 25 years later, and he also held positions at the…
We recently guest-posted on Terrapinn’s Total BioPharma blog about the creation of a ‘Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia’. Here’s an excerpt of the post.
This is a guest post from Terrapinn, a company that organizes healthcare conferences, on the discovery of a protein that could be the crux for HIV prevention. They will be hosting the the Cell Culture World Congress USA (November 12-13, 2012).
Faculty Members Misha Tsodyks, Rony Seger and Avri Ben-Ze’ev tell us about their research.
Caltech researchers pioneer a new approach to HIV vaccination in mice via ‘vectored immunoprophylaxis’ (VIP).
And top-tier journals did not want to publish this surprising study.
Leishmaniasis genome provides information with which to study the evolution of drug resistance.
