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Monday, October 22, 2007

 

Salary levels for Post-Doctoral fellows in research institutes

How much a biology postdoc can earn nowadays? The answer is "depends". The salary levels vary across the country, most times depending who you are working for. However, in the top research institutes, there are guidelines in terms of compensation levels for postdocs and graduate students.

The table above is the brief surveys of postdoc salary levels in prestigious research institutes. The average is based on the data collected in 2006.

Sources: US Department of Labor

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

 

Biopharmaceuticals: Approval Trends in 2006

Note: click on the table for better view.

The year 2006 witnessed the approval of 13 biopharmaceuticals in the United States or European Union (Table 1) including four hormones, three antibody-based products, three therapeutic enzymes, one recombinant vaccine, an anticlotting agent, and a nucleic acid–based product. Major target indications included hereditary genetic conditions (four products), growth deficiency (two products), and neovascular macular degeneration (two products).

Only 10 of the 13 products were genuinely new to the market. Naglazyme, Tysabri, and Macugen, although approved in one region last year, had gained approval before 2006 in some other world region.

In terms of expression systems used, five of the approved biopharmaceuticals are produced in mammalian cell lines, four in Escherichia coli, and two in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, again confirming the prominence of these three expression systems in the biopharmaceutical sector. One product (Macugen) is produced by solid-phase organic synthesis. Another (Atryn) is particularly noteworthy because it is the first biopharmaceutical produced in a transgenic animal to gain regulatory approval.

For full text of this article, please click here.
Written by Gary Walsh, PhD.

Source: BioPharminternational.com

Monday, October 15, 2007

 

CNN - 071012 - Al Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize - Announcement


 

Al Gore Nobel Peace Prize Press Conference


Sunday, October 14, 2007

 

The Nobel Peace Prize 2007

The Nobel Peace Prize goes to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change"

Check the official website for details!


Wednesday, October 10, 2007

 

Journal Impact Factors for 2005: top 200!

Journal Title Impact Factor
CA-CANCER J CLIN 49.794
ANNU REV IMMUNOL 47.4
NEW ENGL J MED 44.016
ANNU REV BIOCHEM 33.456
NAT REV CANCER 31.694
SCIENCE 30.927
NAT REV IMMUNOL 30.458
REV MOD PHYS 30.254
NAT REV MOL CELL BIO 29.852
CELL 29.431
NATURE 29.273
NAT MED 28.878
PHYSIOL REV 28.721
NAT IMMUNOL 27.011
NAT GENET 25.797
ANNU REV NEUROSCI 24.184
ANNU REV CELL DEV BI 23.69
LANCET 23.407
JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 23.332
NAT BIOTECHNOL 22.738
ENDOCR REV 22.538
NAT REV NEUROSCI 20.951
CHEM REV 20.869
ANNU REV PHARMACOL 19.833
NAT CELL BIOL 19.717
NAT REV GENET 19.211
NAT REV DRUG DISCOV 18.775
CANCER CELL 18.725
ANNU REV ASTRON ASTR 18.567
SURF SCI REP 17.857
ANNU REV PLANT BIOL 17.78
REV PHYSIOL BIOCH P 17.053
ANNU REV BIOPH BIOM 16.175
PROG POLYM SCI 16.045
NAT MATER 15.941
PHARMACOL REV 15.689
GENE DEV 15.61
MICROBIOL MOL BIOL R 15.5
NAT NEUROSCI 15.456
CURR OPIN CELL BIOL 15.246
J NATL CANCER I 15.171
PROG SOLID STATE CH 15.167
IMMUNITY 15.156
J CLIN INVEST 15.053
MOL CELL 14.971
TRENDS ECOL EVOL 14.864
PLOS BIOL 14.672
DEV CELL 14.609
ASTROPHYS J SUPPL S 14.428
TRENDS NEUROSCI 14.325
NEURON 14.304
NAT REV MICROBIOL 13.989
J EXP MED 13.965
ANNU REV GENET 13.959
CHEM SOC REV 13.747
ANNU REV MICROBIOL 13.412
ANNU REV PHYS CHEM 13.405
ANNU REV PHYSIOL 13.359
TRENDS BIOCHEM SCI 13.343
MASS SPECTROM REV 13.273
ANN INTERN MED 13.254
ACCOUNTS CHEM RES 13.141
AM J HUM GENET 12.649
ARCH GEN PSYCHIAT 12.642
GASTROENTEROLOGY 12.386
NAT STRUCT MOL BIOL 12.19
LANCET NEUROL 12.167
BBA-REV CANCER 12.143
TRENDS GENET 12.047
J CLIN ONCOL 11.81
TRENDS CELL BIOL 11.791
PROG NEUROBIOL 11.789
CURR BIOL 11.732
CIRCULATION 11.632
PROG LIPID RES 11.372
ANNU REV MATER RES 11.219
PLANT CELL 11.088
J CELL BIOL 10.951
CURR OPIN PLANT BIOL 10.807
LANCET INFECT DIS 10.521
MAT SCI ENG R 10.517
PHYS REP 10.458
CLIN MICROBIOL REV 10.443
ADV PHYS 10.421
FRONT NEUROENDOCRIN 10.409
ANNU REV MED 10.383
TRENDS PHARMACOL SCI 10.372
SYST BIOL 10.327
P NATL ACAD SCI USA 10.231
TRENDS IMMUNOL 10.174
GENOME RES 10.139
BLOOD 10.131
ANNU REV ECOL EVOL S 10.104
ANNU REV GENOM HUM G 10.094
EMBO J 10.053
FEMS MICROBIOL REV 10
ALDRICHIM ACTA 9.917
BEHAV BRAIN SCI 9.885
MOL CELL PROTEOMICS 9.876
NANO LETT 9.847
HEPATOLOGY 9.792
ANNU REV PSYCHOL 9.784
COORDIN CHEM REV 9.779
Q REV BIOPHYS 9.765
PSYCHOL BULL 9.746
GENOME BIOL 9.712
TRENDS PLANT SCI 9.701
ANGEW CHEM INT EDIT 9.596
CURR OPIN STRUC BIOL 9.559
ASTRON ASTROPHYS REV 9.5
CIRC RES 9.408
CURR OPIN GENET DEV 9.361
MOL PSYCHIATR 9.335
ANNU REV ENTOMOL 9.326
ADV MICROB PHYSIOL 9.3
OCEANOGR MAR BIOL 9.25
J AM COLL CARDIOL 9.2
TRENDS COGN SCI 9.155
ADV MATER 9.107
CURR OPIN IMMUNOL 9.103
CYTOKINE GROWTH F R 9.075
BRIT MED J 9.052
ATHEROSCLEROSIS SUPP 8.963
SEMIN IMMUNOL 8.922
REP PROG PHYS 8.893
AM J RESP CRIT CARE 8.689
ANNU REV NUTR 8.605
REJUV RES 8.571
CURR OPIN NEUROBIOL 8.527
ANNU REV FLUID MECH 8.471
CURR OPIN CHEM BIOL 8.451
IMMUNOL REV 8.42
PLOS MED 8.389
PHARMACOL THERAPEUT 8.357
AM J PSYCHIAT 8.286
J PHOTOCH PHOTOBIO C 8.167
DIABETES 8.028
CANCER METAST REV 8.017
ARCH INTERN MED 8.016
CURR OPIN MICROBIOL 8.005
SEMIN CANCER BIOL 7.99
PSYCHOL REV 7.986
MED RES REV 7.964
TRENDS BIOTECHNOL 7.955
HUM MUTAT 7.923
ADV CANCER RES 7.909
LANCET ONCOL 7.855
DIABETES CARE 7.844
CELL DEATH DIFFER 7.785
HUM MOL GENET 7.764
DRUG DISCOV TODAY 7.755
REV GEOPHYS 7.742
CLIN CHEM 7.717
GUT 7.692
J ALLERGY CLIN IMMUN 7.667
EMBO REP 7.663
CANCER RES 7.616
ANNU REV PHYTOPATHOL 7.605
DEVELOPMENT 7.603
PROG RETIN EYE RES 7.577
ANN NEUROL 7.571
NUCLEIC ACIDS RES 7.552
BRAIN 7.535
CLIN PHARMACOL THER 7.526
J NEUROSCI 7.506
PHYS REV LETT 7.489
NEUROSCI BIOBEHAV R 7.443
CRIT REV BIOCHEM MOL 7.423
ARTH RHEUM/AR C RES 7.421
J AM CHEM SOC 7.419
CAN MED ASSOC J 7.402
ACM COMPUT SURV 7.4
EUR HEART J 7.341
Q REV BIOL 7.333
NAT PROD REP 7.325
J AM SOC NEPHROL 7.24
TRENDS ENDOCRIN MET 7.22
SIAM REV 7.213
ADV DRUG DELIVER REV 7.189
MOL CELL BIOL 7.093
FASEB J 7.064
ARTERIOSCL THROM VAS 7.053
PLANT J 6.969
ANN RHEUM DIS 6.956
J PROTEOME RES 6.901
CURR OPIN BIOTECH 6.898
ONCOGENE 6.872
BIOESSAYS 6.787
BIOL PSYCHIAT 6.779
ADV FUNCT MATER 6.77
NAT METHODS 6.741
J COSMOL ASTROPART P 6.739
TRENDS MICROBIOL 6.648
LEUKEMIA 6.612
RECENT PROG HORM RES 6.571
J CELL SCI 6.543
J BONE MINER RES 6.527
MOL BIOL CELL 6.52
CLIN INFECT DIS 6.51
SEMIN CELL DEV BIOL 6.491

Monday, October 8, 2007

 

Three winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007




The $1.54 million prize was awarded Monday to Mario R. Capecchi, 70, of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City; Oliver Smithies, 82, a native of Britain now at University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and Sir Martin J. Evans, 66, of Cardiff University in Wales.

This year's Nobel Laureates have made a series of ground-breaking discoveries concerning embryonic stem cells and DNA recombination in mammals. Their discoveries led to the creation of an immensely powerful technology referred to as gene targeting in mice. It is now being applied to virtually all areas of biomedicine – from basic research to the development of new therapies.

Mario R. Capecchi Lab Webpage !

Oliver Smithies Lab Webpage !

Sir Martin J. Evans Lab Webpage !

Want to see more celebration photos, click here.

Sources: Nobel Foundation, Associated Press.


Wednesday, October 3, 2007

 

Predicts the Nobel Prizes in 2007

The announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is scheduled on next Monday, October 8, 2007.

Guess who will be the biggest winner in biomedical sciences this year?

Mainly based on the citations and impacts of the publications, Thomson Scientific has 6 nominees this year, such as R. John Ellis, F. Ulrich Hartl, Arthur Horwich, Fred H. Gage, and Joan Massague. Check here for detail! If someone among them happened to be your favorite, you even can vote for him on the website. Although your vote doesn't count...

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