Today is World Cancer Day. In light of this, we asked Elaine Holmes, Member of our Pharmacology & Drug Discovery Faculty, to give us an overview of biomarkers of cancer. Globally, cancer is among the leading causes of death with the number of new cases projected to rise to 22 million over the next two decades. …
We are delighted to announce the appointment of David Lipman, Janet Thornton and Alfonso Valenciaas our Heads of Faculty for the Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics & Computational Biology Faculty.
Anja Bielinsky is January’s featured Faculty Member of the Month. She has been a Member of the Cell Biology Faculty since March 2012. Faculty Members (FMs) are acknowledged experts invited to recommend the articles that are included in F1000Prime. They review the articles, write brief comments, and score the articles.
The phylogenetic ‘Tree of Life’, arguably the most elegant representation of the evolutionary process, perhaps of any biological process, is 150 years old this year. To commemorate this anniversary we have created a special collection of phylogenetics articles published on F1000Research.
In recognition of World Food Day this post highlights two articles recently published in the OKAD channel that illustrate the power of using data-rich visualization approaches to meet the Sustainable Development Goals of eliminating hunger, malnutrition and poverty by 2030.
Grinu Mathew is our “F1000 Specialist of the Month”. She is a biologist with a keen interest in exploring the genetic and biochemical blueprint of cancer metastasis. She is also an elected representative of the postdoc liaison committee (PDLC) and a member of the women in science and engineering group (WiSE) at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL).
Alice Moscovici spoke with Beth Schoen, a Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Fellow as well as American Association for University Women Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab for Cancer Drug Delivery & Cell Based Technologies at Technion in Haifa, Israel, about the importance of collaboration in scientific research, in particular for young scientists.
We are barely into the post-summer conference and awards season and the Lasker Awards have landed! The awards recognise basic medical research, and clinical medical research respectively, acknowledging a maximum of three recipients. The 2016 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award went to William G. Kaelin, Jr., Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for the…
Maria-Paz Ramos is June’s “F1000 Specialist of the Month”. She obtained her PhD in Biomedical Sciences at Einstein in NYC, working on stem cells and epigenetic transcriptional regulation. After living in the US for 8 years, she went back to Chile in order to contribute to the science progression in her country.
Congratulations to our Head of Neuroscience Faculty, Carla J Shatz, who has won this year’s Kavli Prize in Neuroscience. She shares the prize with Eve Marder, former Faculty Member of the Neuronal Signaling Mechanisms Section, and Michael M Merzenich ‘for the discovery of mechanisms that allow experience and neural activity to remodel brain function.’
