Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học quốc tế cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: " Announcing the Andy Kaplan Prize and call for nominations. | Retrovirology BioMed Central Commentary Announcing the Andy Kaplan Prize and call for nominations Alice Telesnitsky Open Access Address Department of Microbiology and Immunology 1150 W. Medical Center Dr. Room 5641 Ann Arbor MI 48109-0620 USA Email Alice Telesnitsky - ateles@ Corresponding author Received 11 January 2007 Accepted 18 January 2007 Published 18 January 2007 Retrovirology 2007 4 3 doi 1742-4690-4-3 This article is available from http content 4 1 3 2007 Telesnitsky licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The retrovirology community has founded a new prize in tribute to our late colleague Andrew Kaplan with the goals of honoring and advancing the career of a postdoctoral researcher in our field. We seek help identifying outstanding candidates for this new award. Commentary A new prize in tribute to Andy Kaplan has been established to be awarded annually with the purpose of advancing the career and honoring the accomplishments of a distinguished postdoctoral scientist as he or she embarks on an independent career in retrovirology. Until his untimely death at 47 last year Andy Kaplan was an Associate Professor in Medicine and in Microbiology and Immunology at UNC Chapel Hill 1 . Like many people in the retrovirus field Andy started attending the Cold Spring Harbor Retrovirus Meeting while he was a postdoc. Many of us got to know Andy and his engaging personality through this meeting and it was always a pleasure sharing his excitement about science and his interest in junior investigators. The format of the Cold Spring Harbor meeting - predominantly short talks describing the latest results presented by the people who performed the work themselves - has long .
