Congratulations to the following F1000 Faculty Members who have been named as New Investigators for the Wellcome Trust. Juan Burrone, Neuroscience Jurg Bahler, Cell Biology Matteo Carandini, Neuroscience Fiona Powrie, Gastroenterology & Hepatology Wolf Reik, Genomics & Genetics The prestigious New and Senior Investigator Awards are given to outstanding researchers asking the most challenging research…
F1000 extends ‘Changes Clinical Practice’ recommendations to a wider audience.
A new F1000 Medicine report causes Caitlin Cockerton to ponder the socio-ethical issues around new wave pharmaceuticals.
Mike Cunningham talks to F1000 about toxicology becoming a predictive science and how it will replace animal testing.
Quirky and amusing quotes from F1000 evaluations, and a wave hello.
Back in August I mentioned an article in Infection and Immunity on retractions, intriguingly titled Retracted Science and the Retraction Index. The authors are the Editor in Chief of Infect. Immun. Ferric C. Fang and Arturo Casadevall–Editor in Chief of mBio F1000 Member in Medical Microbiology. Their major finding was that journals with high impact…
Few readers of Naturally Selected or F1000 users can be unaware of the huge health burden caused by malaria–an estimated 800,000 deaths and 225 million cases worldwide in 2010. Possibly less well appreciated is the parlous state of effective treatment strategies: the current first-line treatment for Plasmodium falciparum currently relies on a single drug class…
At the ECCO & ESMO meeting in Stockholm, George Demetri, Section Head in Oncology, talked about his hopes and expectations for his field of sarcoma research putting a finer point on the pencil According to George, the most important aspect of the Stockholm meeting was going to be a discussion of prognostic and predictive factors…
Profile of Section Head Mario Strazzabosco.
