Many recent blogs and tweets have been suggesting F1000 Research as an alternative for those who have been using Nature Precedings, which closes today. We would be delighted to receive such submissions so if you do have something that you had planned to send to Nature Precedings within the fields of biology and medicine (or…
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We’d like to start by welcoming Steven Hyman, Alan Schechter, Judith Kimble and Marvin Wickens to the F1000 Research Advisory Panel. Steven is Director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute, and Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology. Alan is Chief of the Molecular Medicine Branch…
With regret, we note the death of Faculty Member Cornelis Biesheuvel. Cornelis joined F1000 in March 2007 and was a member of the ‘Methods for Diagnostic & Therapeutic Studies’ section in the Research Methodology Faculty. An obituary is posted here (in German). Our sincere condolences to his family and colleagues.
To start, we’d like to extend a warm welcome to Tim Clark, the newest member of our ever-growing Advisory Panel. Tim is the Director of Informatics at the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND), and an Instructor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School. With over 22 years of experience within the bioinformatics field, Tim’s work…
Sadly, we report the death of David Bennett, former Section Head of the ‘Acute Cardiovascular Problems’ section. Our chairman, Vitek Tracz said, David Bennett was an outstanding doctor, a committed researcher and a brilliant organiser. Above all, he was the most wonderful and caring person, and a very dear friend. I owe much to him.…
This is the first of our weekly digests of what’s been happening in the blogosphere! These will usually be posted at the end of the week, where possible, but we thought we’d give you an early treat this week.. Comments and suggestions are very much welcomed, and please feel free to let us know about…
Last year we established the ‘Associate Faculty Member Travel Grant Fund’ in recognition of our Associate Faculty Members’ (AFMs) contribution to F1000. For every evaluation published in each Faculty area, we added $1 to that Faculty’s fund. Eligible AFMs had six or more published evaluations in 2011 and applied for a grant; winners were selected…
Earlier this week, a group from the Materials Science department at Oxford University brought together prominent figures in the current open science debate to discuss The Scientific Evolution: Open Science and the Future of Publishing, organised by Victoria Watson, who was driving the idea forward, and Simon Benjamin, founder of an experiment piloting rapid dissemination…
It is with regret that we mark the death of Andrzej Szczeklik, Faculty Member in the Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology Faculty, earlier this month. Please read his obituary in the latest issue of the Polish Archives of Internal Medicine.
