We are pleased to announce the recent appointments of five new Heads of Faculty: Dan Mayer, Albany Medical Center – Head of Faculty, Research Methodology Arnulf Stenzl, University of Tübingen Medical School – Head of Faculty, Urology Hilary Critchley, University of Edinburgh – Head of Faculty, Women’s Health Paul M Stewart, University of Leeds –…
Here are this week’s most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
We’d like to congratulate Prof. Simon Levin, F1000Prime Section Head in Theoretical Ecology, on being awarded the 2014 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. The award recognizes his research into the complexity of species and ecosystems, and the relationships between them. The Tyler Prize is an international environmental award for environmental science, environmental health and energy,…
It’s nearly a year since we launched our F1000 Specialists community programme. Today we celebrate our 200th Specialist – congratulations Vinod Saladi. Vinod is a Medical Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School working on the mechanism by which epigenetic factors mediate the transcriptional reprogramming in squamous cell cancers. Vinod joined the Specialists programme after following…
A round up of this week’s most popular tweets on @F1000, as well as our top picks from the rest of Twitter…
A few weeks ago we published Prof. Kenneth Lee and his research group’s attempt to replicate the now infamous STAP cell work published in January of this year. Ken’s groups article has proven to be very popular with the scientific community having received over 5000 views in its first two weeks of being online, and…
Here are this week’s most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
Donatella Marazziti is a professor of psychiatry and the director of the psychopharmacology laboratory at the Department of Psychiatry, Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Biotechnology at the University of Pisa. She is also a member of the Mood Disorders section at F1000Prime. Professor Marazziti recently visited us in our New York City offices and gave us a…
This is the second in a series of posts in which we go into more detail about some of the concepts that F1000Research is based on. In the first instalment, we looked at open access. Here, we turn to open peer review. What is open peer review? What are the benefits and challenges? History of…
Philipp Kaldis, Principal Investigator at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Singapore, is a member of the Cell Biology Faculty of F1000Prime. In this video, Dr Kaldis describes his research into the cell cycle and its effect on cancer. Using liver cancer as a model, Dr Kaldis’ team are looking into the mechanics…
