Celebrating excellence in science: BioMed Central announces shortlist for 5th Annual Research Awards

28 Mar 2011

Open access publisher BioMed Central today announced the shortlists for the 5th Annual Research Awards. 15 articles of exemplary scientific research are being considered for the prestigious Biology, Medicine and Open Data Awards which will be presented at a ceremony on Thursday 5th May at ZSL London Zoo, Regent's Park, London, UK.

Biology Award
Selected by an expert panel of judges comprised of Sir Tim Hunt, Principal Scientist at Cancer Research UK, Prof Laurence Hurst, University of Bath and Michaela Torkar, Editorial Director at BioMed Central, the nominations are:

The first metazoa living in permanently anoxic conditions

BMC Biology

Evolution of an adenocarcinoma in response to selection by targeted kinase inhibitors

Genome Biology

EvoDevo

What the hyena's laugh tells: Sex, age, dominance and individual signature in the giggling call of Crocuta crocuta

BMC Ecology

The nucleotide addition cycle of RNA polymerase is controlled by two molecular hinges in the Bridge Helix domain

BMC Biology

Medicine Award
The shortlist, which was selected byRichard Smith, United Health Group and former Editor of the BMJ, Dr Mike Clarke, Director of the UK Cochrane Centre and Dr Jigisha Patel, Medical Editor (BMC Series) at BioMed Central, contains four notable research articles:

Exercise increases interleukin-10 levels both intraarticularly and peri-synovially in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a randomized controlled trial

Arthritis Research & Therapy

Communication, perception and behaviour during a natural disaster involving a 'Do Not Drink' and a subsequent 'Boil Water' notice: a postal questionnaire study

BMC Public Health

The Manchester Color Wheel: development of a novel way of identifying color choice and its validation in healthy, anxious and depressed individuals

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Intensive care diaries reduce new onset post traumatic stress disorder following critical illness: a randomised, controlled trial

Critical Care

Open Data Award
Peter Murray-Rust of the Murray-Rust Group, Cambridge, John Wilbanks of Creative Commons, Open Access advocate Cameron Neylon, Alex Wade of Microsoft Research (who are sponsoring the Open Data Award), Rufus Pollock of OKF and Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Journal Publisher at BioMed Central, formed the panel of judges.

An ANOCEF genomic and transcriptomic microarray study of the response to radiotherapy or to alkylating first-line chemotherapy in glioblastoma patients

Molecular Cancer

Phenotypic and molecular characterization of the claudin-low intrinsic subtype of breast cancer

Breast Cancer Research

Data and programming code from the studies on the learning curve for radical prostatectomy

BMC Research Notes

aeGEPUCI: a database of gene expression in the dengue vector mosquito, Aedes aegypti

BMC Research Notes

How common is ecological speciation in plant-feeding insects? A 'Higher' Nematinae perspective

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Development and analysis of an in vivo-compatible metabolic network of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

BMC Systems Biology

Awards will also be presented at the ceremony on 5th May for Case Report of the Year, Editor of the Year and Open Access Advocate of the Year.

Matthew Cockerill, Managing Director of BioMed Central, said: “BioMed Central's journals published more than 16,000 peer-reviewed open access research articles last year. Our fifth annual Research Awards highlight the best of that research, and recognize the authors, editors and open access advocates whose contributions have been vital to the success of BioMed Central's journals.”

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