Feb
16
Late last week I was contacted by John Liebler a science and medicine illustrator and he had seen the Zika glycoprotein E homology model and wanted to use it to produce an image of the virus. After reading up on flaviviruses it appeared to me that the original model was of the trimer and not …
Nov
10
I have Antony Williams to thank because for a long time I have been wanting to summarize my thoughts on how I use social networking to spread the word about the science that I am involved in. Seeing Tony’s slides pushed me to do this! This follows visiting many groups of students (most recently at …
Oct
27
Having just completed review of a manuscript that profiled a prominent scientist in my field from the 20th century, it got me thinking openly. Firstly, I rarely read profiles of long deceased scientists in my field, frankly who but perhaps the odd emeritus professor (with all due respect) would have time on their hands to …
Dec
11
I was inspired by my friend Robert Moore to write this post. He had written back in October on how to find members of the C-suites at businesses, which are positions treasured by marketeers. He compared CEOs to snow leopards, a very rare species, that can be found if you are smart and know where …
Jan
06
For the last 2 years I have been incredibly fortunate to attend and participate in what I think is the best conference ever, namely Science Online. Antony Williams introduced me to this conference and we had a great time discussing ideas each year I attended. The format and topics of discussion were excellent and they …
Jun
19
Yesterday I received the following email from NCATS (probably along with thousands of others). Dear Colleagues: This morning, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced $12.7 million in awards to match nine academic research groups with a selection of pharmaceutical industry compounds to explore new treatments for patients in eight disease areas, including Alzheimer’s disease, …
May
13
Since publishing a couple of papers in PLOS ONE (here and here) over the past few weeks and my respective blogs (here, here, here and here) there seems to be more interest than usual on this blog and much of this has been driven by attention from Derek Lowe’s In the Pipeline blog. I have summarized …
May
07
One has to ask how often history repeats itself. In the case of NCATS its at least every year. Last year a few of us brought to light the case of the drug company (industry) provided compounds looking for a repurposing home on the NCATS website, which oddly enough did not have any structures. This …
May
06
A week or so ago I was seriously contemplating giving up blogging after just a so-so level of interest over 2 years and a couple of spikes that really only corresponded to issues around database quality which is not even the main focus of of my research. My blog is by far not the most …
Jan
31
What a day..I should say that a terrific storm last night contributed substantially to the exhaustion I am feeling as I write this so I will keep it short and expand more fully in future blogs. But I have to get my thoughts down as I filter my experiences through what I heard and said …
