Irregularities have been documented in dozens of research papers by Xuetao Cao, a high-profile Chinese scientist and champion of research integrity. Xuetao Cao, a biomedical engineer, is the president of Nankai University in Tianjin and a former president of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. On Nov 13, Elisabeth Bik, a microbiologist who dedicates her […]
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Gairdner Awards 2018 honour GBD studies
Creators of the GBD studies look back at almost two decades since the first iteration. Other awards recognised the fields of optogenetics, epigenetics, and lung cancer research. Alan Lopez from the University of Melbourne and Christopher Murray from the University of Washington have won the 2018 John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award for their […]
Seven scientists win the 2017 Gairdner Awards
Seven researchers have each been awarded a 2017 Gairdner Award for seminal work in areas including child nutrition and treatment for cardiovascular disease. Cesar Victora, an epidemiologist at the Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil, has won the 2017 John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award for his work on maternal and child health in […]
Stronger rules needed for medical device cybersecurity
Experts say that health systems in the USA and other countries are not prepared for cybersecurity threats and existing and draft regulations are weak. The US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) latest draft guidelines for post-market management of cybersecurity risks in medical devices are a good start, but need to be given greater force to […]
NIAID director wins Canada Gairdner Global Health Award
Infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci has been awarded 2016’s Global Health Award from the Gairdner Foundation for his decades of work against HIV/AIDS. Anthony Fauci, the director of the US National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has won the 2016 Global Health Award from Canada’s Gairdner Foundation for […]
Nurse review paves way for merger of UK research councils
Paul Nurse, president of the Royal Society, has called for an overarching body to encompass all the UK’s research councils in a long-awaited review released last week. A review of the UK’s research funding system has recommended tighter integration of the country’s seven discipline-specific research councils under a single, new umbrella organisation that would oversee […]
Profile: The Scripps Research Institute under new leadership
Steve Kay, the new president of The Scripps Research Institute, has big plans for the venerable biomedical research institution. Alongside incoming CEO Peter Shultz, he hopes to extend the institute’s mission beyond basic science to incorporate more translational work, in a complete bench-to-bedside approach. “If you can couple the strength in basic sciences of an […]
American cardiologist wins 2015 Prince Mahidol prize
Morton Mower, who developed two cardiac devices that have helped millions of people worldwide, has been honoured by the Prince Mahidol Award Foundation. Morton Mower admits that it was a “crazy” idea that won him Thailand’s 2015 Prince Mahidol Award for medicine. Mower was recognised for his work on developing the automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator […]
2015 Nobel Prize goes to antiparasitic drug discoverers
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to three researchers from Japan, Ireland, and China who identified treatments for major tropical diseases. The discoverers of drugs to treat parasitic diseases that predominantly affect people in the developing world have won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Satoshi Omura, from Kitasato […]
George King: research leader at the Joslin Diabetes Center
Like many medical researchers, George King has a personal connection to the disease that he has spent his career studying. He has been working to understand and treat diabetes at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, MA, USA, since 1981, partly because of how it has affected his own family. “Asians develop diabetes at a […]