BioMed Central Blog
Winners of the 2007 BioMed Central Research Awards
The winners of the 2007 BioMed Central Research Awards were announced yesterday. Shortlisted authors, who travelled from as far afield as Germany, Italy and the US, joined science journalists, eminent researchers, open access advocates, publishers and editors for a ceremony at the Royal Society of Medicine last night. The BioMed Central Research Awards recognise and celebrate the best medical and biological research published in BioMed Central’s open access journals.
Guests at the awards ceremony were treated to an entertaining talk on natural history and biodiversity preservation from Henry Nicholls, journalist and author. Nicholls discussed his experiences with the rarest animal in the world today, the giant tortoise known as Lonesome George.
Dr Markus Ralser won the prize for biological research. His research, ‘Dynamic rerouting of the carbohydrate flux is key to counteracting oxidative stress’ was published in Journal of Biology. Dr Xiaolong Meng received the award for medicine. Meng’s research ‘Endometrial regenerative cells: A novel stem cell population’ was published in Journal of Translational Medicine. Both these awards were generously sponsored by Microsoft Research.
This year there was a new addition to the awards, the JMCR Award, presented to the author of the most original case report published in the Journal of Medical Case Reports. Dr Phuong Mai won the award for her case report: ‘A possible new syndrome with growth-hormone secreting pituitary adenoma, colonic polyposis, lipomatosis, lentigines and renal carcinoma in association with familial testicular germ cell malignancy: A case report'.
Congratulations to the winners and to those shortlisted for the awards, and thanks to Pfizer, whose provided sponsorship for the awards ceremony itself.
Posted by Matthew Cockerill at 18:03 Comments (0)
