The voters of the Amedeo Medical Literature Service have awarded the 2008 Amedeo Prize to the
Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (WTCCC), United Kingdom,
for its article "Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases
and 3,000 shared controls",
published in Nature on June 6th, 2007
(447:661-78; free full-text).
The 2nd winner is Jennifer L. Baker from the Institute of Preventive Medicine,
Center for Health and Society, Copenhagen, Denmark:
"Childhood body-mass index and the risk of coronary heart disease in adulthood", published
in the New England Journal of Medicine on December 6th, 2007 (357:2329-37; free full-text).
The 3rd winner is Kazutoshi Takahashi
from the Department of Stem Cell Biology,
Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan:
"Induction of pluripotent stem cells from adult human fibroblasts by defined factors", published
in Cell on November 30th, 2007 (131:861-72; free full-text).
The Prize money of 22,000 Euro will be divided as follows:
WTCCC: 12,532 Euro; Dr. Baker: 4,808 Euro; Dr. Takahashi: 4,660 Euro.
Takahashi
K - Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Adult Human Fibroblasts by
Defined Factors. Cell - Free
full-text
282
4.
Yu J - Induced
Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Somatic Cells. Science - Free full-text
245
5.
Zhang, David D
- Global climate change, war, and population decline in recent human history. Proc
Natl Acad Sci U S A - Free full-text
241
6.
Menzies, Dick -
Meta-analysis: new tests for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection: areas of
uncertainty and recommendations for research. Ann Intern Med - Free full-text
215
7.
Dubois, Bruno - Research criteria for the diagnosis of
Alzheimer's disease: revising the NINCDS-ADRDA criteria. Lancet Neurol - Free full-text
For obvious reasons, the winners of the Amedeo Prize are the stars of this competition.
However, the Prize could not have been awarded without
the expertise of the subscribers to Amedeo.
While nominating (n=1,694) or voting (n=1,644)
may have been a matter of minutes, the combined effort totals more than 400 hours of intense work.
The nominators and voters are the hidden stars of the Amedeo Prize.
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