Jabberwocky
It’s another beautiful June day in London. The BT Tower is glinting against an unbroken cerulean sky, and the F1000 staff are busily publishing evaluation after evaluation (92,388 evaluations published...
View ArticleJan Klein and Big Science
I always have been against big science. I think it’s mostly a waste of money and all the history of science shows us that it never leads to the attempted goal. Jan Klein, the Czech-American...
View ArticleChanging faces
Over on the main site, we have an Immunology Top 7. To accompany this, here’s the immunologist Avrion Mitchison talking about the ‘World Holiday Organization’, and ‘the best scientists I’ve ever...
View ArticleWeekly roundup
Rather than the familiar adaptive immune system based on immunoglobulin domains and major histocompatibility complex antigens common to mammals and most other vertebrates, jawless vertebrates such as...
View ArticleRumours
Etienne Joly is one of our Faculty Members, based in Toulouse, France. He created a stir with his evaluation of a paper published back in 2005, debunking the urban myth of high rates of misattributed...
View ArticleF1000 Weekly Roundup
Do trees get old? This is not a trivial question: indeterminate growth distinguishes plants from many (if not most) animals, and so while they obviously get older, they do not necessarily age, or...
View ArticleMacrophages, cancer and rejection
Development of the vasculature of solid cancers (tumour angiogenesis) is a promising target for therapy, leading to interest in proteins such as angiostatin, endostatin and tumstatin. These generally...
View Article2011 Canada Gairdner Award
Please join us in congratulating two F1000 Members who have been awarded a 2011 Canada Gairdner Award. This award recognizes and rewards “the achievements of medical researchers whose work contributes...
View ArticleNobel acts
While we would like to congratulate Section Head in Innate Immunity Jules Hoffmann on sharing this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine, we are also saddened to learn of the death of co-laureate Ralph...
View ArticleImmunity and stability in the human genome.
Last month, Kathleen Wets, Publisher of F1000Prime, was in Boston for the Experimental Biology (EB 2013) conference. While she was there, she visited Frederick Alt, Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics...
View ArticleFaculty videos: ASM 2013, Denver
At last month’s American Society of Microbiology meeting in Denver, our Publisher Kathleen Wets met with up with some of the Faculty of F1000Prime: Faculty Member Joanna Goldberg and Section Head Tom...
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150,000 article recommendations!
We’ve hit a major milestone on F1000Prime – we’ve just published our 150,000th article recommendation! Submissions of article recommendations have risen each year since we launched F1000Prime in 2002:...
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The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
We’re very pleased to congratulate F1000Prime Section Head James Allison on being awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences in 2014. This annual prize is awarded by the Breakthrough Prize in...
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Tang Prize 2014
James Allison (left) and Tasuku Honjo (right). Photo credit: Tang Prize FoundationWe are delighted to offer our congratulations to Tasuku Honjo and James Allison, both F1000Prime Immunology Section...
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The AAI Lifetime Achievement Award 2014
Founded in 1913, the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) is one of the foremost organisations serving the vast and ever-changing field of immunology. It is also the organisation behind the...
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The Susan G. Komen® Brinker Award and The William B. Coley Award
Joan Brugge and Tasuku HonjoJoan Brugge, one of our Section Heads for the Cell Biology Faculty, will receive the Susan G. Komen® Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction in Basic Science. This award is...
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Philippa Marrack wins 2015 Wolf Prize
We are pleased to be able to say that Immunology Head of Faculty Philippa Marrack has jointly won the 2015 Wolf Prize in Medicine – a prestigious prize that recognises scientists at the top of their...
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Just what I needed: CARs and other approaches to cancer immunotherapy
The idea of utilizing the immune system to combat cancer is exciting for lots of reasons: it’s intuitive, it converges with the growing field of personalized medicine, it harnesses the bewildering...
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Austin Hughes
We’re sad to mark the death of Austin Hughes, who had been Faculty Member of the F1000 Immunology Faculty since 2003. Hughes was Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina,...
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