Announcing a plethora of F1000Prime award winners

We are delighted, once again, to be able to announce the winners of our annual ‘Faculty Member of the Year’ and ‘Associate Faculty Member Travel Grant’ awards. In addition, we’re thrilled to unveil a completely new award – Outstanding Faculty Member of 2013. These awards recognize the hard work of our Faculty Members and Associate…

Once upon a time – guest blog by Sue Malcolm

Making data widely available doesn’t always mean that it can be widely understood. In this guest blog post, Sue Malcolm considers the vast information we have about different species’ genomes, compared to how very few people know how to interpret this information. Malcolm is Faculty Member for F1000Prime, and Emeritus Professor of Molecular Genetics at…

Evaluating knockdown within single cells – Interview

We recently indexed an article by Shin-ichiro Kojima and Gary Borisy, about a method they developed that allows cell biologists to evaluate within single cells whether their RNA interference method is working. One of the current challenges in cell and molecular biology is to determine the biological function of genes, now that we know the…

Stephen Udem

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…

F1000Prime most influential: Oncology

While more than 18,000 cancer researchers are gathered in San Diego for the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting this week, we’re highlighting the most influential research articles in oncology in 2013 and a prestigious award for one of our Heads of Faculty. Prof. Bob Pinedo, Professor of Medical Oncology, Free University (VUMC) Amsterdam,…

Catch up with us April 28th, at our San Diego meetup!

F1000Research is hitting the road again! This time we’ll be attending the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego from April 26th-30th. If you’re planning to attend, please visit our booth to grab a few goodies, talk science and publishing, and learn more about our journal. As part of our visit we’ll also be hosting an…