Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: The Editors of Aging Cell wish to congratulate the authors of our Annual ‘Best Paper’ Competition. This is the third year in which we have asked the members of our Editorial Board to nominate papers published in the previous year (Volume 9) that they consider have contributed to the advance of our understanding of a fundamental process in biology of aging, or that have resolved controversial aspects of aging research. The Editors-in-Chief then cast their ballots to select the winner and two runners-up out of the 15 papers nominated by the members of the Editorial Board. The winning paper of our third Annual Best Paper Competition is: ‘Genetic variation in the murine lifespan response to dietary restriction: from life extension to life shortening’ from James Nelson and his team composed of Chen-Yu Liao, Brad Rikke, Thomas Johnson and Vivian Diaz. This work appeared as Aging Cell 9: 92–95 in 2009. You can read this for free online from Wiley-Blackwell at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-9726.2009.00533.x/full. Dr. Liao and the co authors will receive one year’s electronic subscription to Aging Cell. The authors will also receive a Prize Certificate from our sponsors, the Anatomical Society. In addition to this they will receive ONE SUM of £1000 to ONE of the authors (the authors will decide how to distribute the sum amongst themselves) plus up to £1000 travel expenses for the first author or one of the co-authors to present the paper at an Anatomical Society Winter or Summer Meeting. Two other papers nominated by our Editorial Board came very close to winning the Best Paper Competition. These were the work of Sitai Liang and colleagues in the groups of Peter Hornsby and Rochelle Buffenstein entitled ‘Resistance to experimental tumorigenesis in cells of a long-lived mammal, the naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber)’, which appeared in Aging Cell 9: 626–635 (you can read this for free online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-9726.2010.00588.x/full), and the work of Yariv Kanfi and colleagues in Haim Cohen’s group, entitled ‘SIRT6 protects against pathological damage caused by diet-induced obesity’, which appeared in Aging Cell 9: 162–173 (you can read this for free online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-9726.2009.00544.x/full). Both will receive one year’s electronic subscription to Aging Cell for all the authors. Congratulations to the members of these three teams for such superb contributions and thank you to all the groups interested in aging research for continuing to send some of their best work to Aging Cell for review. Next year’s winning paper could be yours!
Source: Aging Cell
Language: English
Subfield: Aging
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2916690145