Christine Wijman

It is with sadness that we note the death of Faculty Member Christine Wijman, who passed away on the 28th of February. An expert in neurocritical care and Director of Critical Care Neurology at Stanford University, Dr Wijman joined the Cerebrovascular Disease Section of the Neurological Disorders Faculty of F1000Prime in September 2008. An obituary…

Data: why openness and sharing are important

Researchers are coming under increasing pressure to share the detailed results of their research, namely the datasets themselves, with other researchers.  The pressure may come in the form of data management plans now being requested by many funders, or from requests for the data from an institutional data repository, or from journals that are increasingly…

The Overton Prize Award 2013

Congratulations go to Goncalo Abecasis, F1000Prime Faculty Member in the Physiogenomics section of the Physiology Faculty, who has been awarded the Overton Prize by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) last Tuesday. The Overton Prize is awarded each year by the ISCB to a scientist “who is recognized for outstanding accomplishment and significant contribution…

AFM Travel Grant – 2012 winners

Now in its second year, F1000Prime’s ‘Associate Faculty Member Travel Grant’ is a way for us to show our appreciation for the invaluable contributions of our Associate Faculty Members. For every recommendation published to F1000Prime during the calendar year, we add $1 to the total available fund. Associate Faculty Members who have more than six…