What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work I am Associate Professor of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine for Girls, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. I am an Associate Alumni, Harvard Medical School and Clinical Scholar, Egypt Clinical Scholar Research Training and Harvard Medical School. I am an Associate Editor in the International…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research. I am currently an ICMR-Senior Research Fellow and pursuing a PhD in cancer biology. My research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying cancer progression and identifying novel therapeutic targets for cancer treatment. Why did you choose to participate in the ASAPbio Fellows…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I’m a postdoc at the Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology in Rosario, Argentina. My work focuses on the role of miRNAs and transcription factors regulating plant growth and development. Why did you choose to participate in the ASAPbio Fellows program? I think…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work or line of research My current role is program coordinator for the Computational Biodiversity Science and Services (BIOS²) training program, based at the University of Sherbrooke, in Canada. The goals of the program involve widening opportunities and skill sets among students and postdoctoral fellows, while fostering a…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research. I’m currently working towards my PhD at the University of Kansas Medical Center, in Dr. Sarah Zanders’ lab. I work on understanding the mechanisms of how the selfish genes, wtf meiotic drivers, function in fission yeast. Why did you choose to participate in…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work research I am a pharmaceutical chemistry lecturer with a master’s degree in molecular medicine from the institute of endemic diseases, faculty of medicine, University of Khartoum, Sudan and I am currently in my last year of PhD in medicinal chemistry in a joint…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay). Currently, I am studying the importance of mechano-sensitive long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in glioblastoma and stem cells. I am focused on how the lncRNAs might contribute to cancer prognosis in…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a soon-to-be Assistant Professor in Visualization research at Linköping University. My main research interests lie in 3D interaction with volumetric data, immersive analytics, visualization of statistical data, methodological research, and open science. Why did you choose to participate in the ASAPbio…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a visiting Fulbright Scholar at Yale University and a graduate student at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India. Molecular motors like kinesins and dynein are by far my favourite molecules inside the cell and my work is broadly trying…
Last month, the US NIH released a Request for Information (RFI) for feedback on its planned implementation of last year’s White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) directive to make all US federally-funded research immediately publicly accessible. In addition to ensuring that “publications resulting from NIH-supported research are made available in PMC without…
We are pleased to announce the winners of the ASAPbio competition ‘Make your negative result a preprint winner’, which aimed to highlight the value of sharing negative and inconclusive scientific results via preprints. We know that science advances through a persistent exploration of research questions and approaches, and that this brings with it the fact…
ASAPbio works closely with a global community to drive awareness and adoption of preprints in the life sciences. To support and amplify the work of our community members in advocating preprints in their local groups and to engage with communities in diverse locations, we are piloting ASAPbio Local Hubs in different geographical regions. In 2023,…
Preprints help to improve the overall quality, integrity and reproducibility of research outputs, as highlighted in UNESCO’s recommendations on open science. Preprint adoption is increasing across scientific disciplines and geographies thanks to the involvement of multiple players, including researchers, publishers, institutions, societies, and funders. Funders can significantly influence, and benefit from, the preprint landscape by…
ASAPbio hosts a global community and we regularly organize online events and activities for audiences across the world. At the same time, we recognize that in-person interactions can be invaluable for developing new relationships and the deeper engagement needed for change in science communication. To support and amplify the work that community members do in…
ASAPbio is thrilled to join the Transform to Open Science (TOPS) initiative, a NASA project “designed to rapidly transform agencies, organizations, and communities to an inclusive culture of open science.” TOPS is also part of US White House’s Year of Open Science. Quoting the TOPS website, the initiative’s four goals are to: How ASAPbio is…
Our first Community Call of 2023 hosted a discussion about the use of preprints by communities in East Asia. While there has been increasing use of preprints in the last few years, trends so far suggest that communities from different geographical regions are at different stages of adoption. An analysis of bioRxiv preprints by Abdill…
In advance of the Recognizing Preprint Peer Review meeting in December 2022, ASAPbio convened two Working Groups of different stakeholders to articulate the added value of incorporating preprint review into assessment processes, catalog potential uses of preprint review as part of assessment processes, develop working definitions for preprint review according to the needs of different stakeholders and discuss how…