Morrow, Reiff, Receive 2013 Space Physics and Aeronomy Richard Carrington Awards: Response

The 2013 Sisk Awards

E ach spring, the editors of Sports Health have the pleasure of selecting the winning manuscripts for the annual T. David Sisk Awards. These awards commemorate the life of Dr T. David Sisk, our colleague and mentor, who chaired the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) Medical Publishing Board during the development of Sports Health. Dr Sisk enthusiastically fostered the deve...

Editorial: Nar Awards 2013

Richard Scheller and Thomas Südhof receive the 2013 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award.

Neural communication underlies all brain activity. It governs our thoughts, feelings, sensations, and actions. But knowing the importance of neural communication does not answer a central question of neuroscience: how do individual neurons communicate? We know that communication between two neurons occurs at specialized cell junctions called synapses, at which two communicating neurons are sepa...

ProFessors browN aND jasaNoFF receive Nih Director’s awarDs

model Demonstrates high Performance in rapid categorization tasks A new model developed by BCS Professors Tomaso Poggio and Aude Oliva as well as post-doc Thomas Serre has been found to perform rapid categorization tasks at a level equivalent to that of the human brain. The work, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could lead to better artificial vision s...

Connect Bursary Awards 2013 Third place

Amy was awarded the 2013 Connect trophy and a cheque for £3,000 for her project which investigated the primary culture of porcine intestinal epithelial cells, while Camilla received a cheque for £2,000 for her project which assessed the effect of turn direction on body lean angle in the horse in trot and canter. Alissa was awarded a prize of £1,000 for her study of grey squirrels in Scotland as...