Q&A with Daniel S. Katz, Lucy Montgomery, Olivia Guest on their views on open scholarship and how universities can take the best advantage of opportunities brought about by current changes in scholarship and society.
Throughout the year our Faculty works tirelessly to ensure we never miss a notable article to help us stay on top of the literature. Therefore, each year it’s fitting that we recognise their valuable work by way of two types of award, namely our AFM Travel Grant Awards and Faculty Member of the Year Awards.
Alexandru Calin Grigorescu is February’s Faculty Member of the Month. He is a Medical Oncology consultant based in Romania. In this Q&A we ask him what his average day is like and what drew him to the field of Oncology.
Stefano Bellentani is January’s Faculty Member of the Month. He is a Chief Of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Service at Clinica Santa Chiara in Switzerland and Chief of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Liver Center in Italy. The clinical epidemiology of chronic liver disease is his main area of research.
As it is Lover your Liver month, we wanted to get some advice straight from the expert and find out a little bit more about his career in this Q&A.
Leprosy may sound like an archaic disease but unfortunately it is not confined to the history books. For World Leprosy Day we have rounded up some of most recommended articles on the subject. Also our usual top three articles for the month; and our Hidden Jewels. Click on the images for full access to the recommendations.
Today we launched the UCL Child Health gateway and to mark the occasion we interviewed John Achermann, one of the first authors to publish on this gateway. He tells us more about his research on hormone development and fetal growth, and the importance of publishing negative results.
We were sad to learn that Stephen Katz, Head of the Dermatology Faculty at F1000Prime and Director of National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), NIH, passed away on the 20th of December. We will miss him greatly.
‘Know your status’ was this year’s theme for World AIDs Day. There are an estimated 36.7 million people living with the HIV virus. 1st December 2018 marked the 30th anniversary of this day dedicated to raising awareness and improving education about the virus, and to end the stigma associated with it. Nicholas Funderburg is December’s Faculty Member…
This October we are proud to present Martine Extermann as our Faculty Member of the month. She is Associate Professor of Oncology and Medicine, University of South Florida, US, and Attending Physician in the Senior Oncology Program at H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, US. In this Q&A, Martine shares the highlights of working as clinical…
How does the microbiota modulate ageing? In a recent Faculty Review, Dario Riccardo Valenzano and his co-author Jens Seidel, explore whether our microbiota play a causal role in the ageing process and the possible mechanisms by which it could do so. The answer to anti-ageing could lie in our gut, according to research published in…
