The Lurie Prize in the Biomedical Sciences is an annual prize awarded by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), designed to honour outstanding achievement by a promising scientist age 52 or younger. Now in its second year, the $100,000 award was endowed by global philanthropist and biomedical research advocate Ann Lurie. This…
Ali Mobasheri is a research scientist in the field of cartilage biology, and works at the University of Nottingham as well as the School of Pharmacy at the University of Bradford. Professor Mobasheri is also a Faculty Member in the Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology Faculty of F1000Prime. During a recent visit to our London office,…
We were recently lucky enough to be visited in our London offices by two of the researchers that comprise the F1000 Faculty. Here we have two video interviews with Faculty Members Mariann Bienz and Michael McDermott.
The Faculty of 1000 team had a great time attending the 2013 Charleston Conference. It was a pleasure to participate and meet lots of old and new faces at our vendor booth and cocktail hour. Iain H, our Outreach Director from London, flew over the pond to give two presentations. First, Iain talked about how…
Here we have two more video interviews with the researchers and clinicians that make up the F1000Prime Faculty. This time we hear from Professor Ray Rodgers on ovarian physiology and Professor Pamela Flood on labour anaesthesia.
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
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…
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 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…
