Maximow Award
Phase II "From Bench to Website" reconsidered
Having seen that open peer review seems to be an unknown field for many, we have decided to prolong this phase of the competition and to dedicate it to bringing down some habitual barriers - in our own heads as well as within the scientific community.
Check out our Maximow birthday surprise that takes the next step towards free circulation of scientific thoughts and knowledge!
22 Jan 2012
The Maximow Award Organizing Team
Great prizes for the winning Short Contributions
Ilya Ya. Bozo, Sergey A. Sergeev & Ylia V. Khramova, and Konstantin G. Shevchenko who submitted the three prizewinning articles for this year's Maximow Award have gained the substantial opportunity to participate in the XIX. Wilsede Meeting "Modern Trends in Human Leukemia and Cancer" in Germany (16-20 June 2012). This symposium has an excellent international reputation. About 180 scientists look forward to it every two years and several Nobel Prize laureates have attended it in the past.
In its 40 year tradition, eliminating barriers to scientific knowledge has always been essential to the organizers. Even during the Cold War, Soviet scientists were invited and attended the symposium to create links with their Western colleagues.
The support of young scientists is another vital ambition of the Wilsede Meeting. Stipends are awarded on a competitive basis to young scientists from Germany and Eastern European countries including Russia who wish to participate at the symposium (click here).
We hope and expect that attending the Wilsede Meeting will be an unforgettable experience for our prizewinners and that the creation of new networks will help them in the continuation of their scientific career.
For more information, please see http://www.wilsede-meeting.com
Maximow Award Team interviewed
The innovative concept of the Alexander A. Maximow Award has not only attracted the attention of German websites (Kisswin). KTTI, the Russian partner journal of CTT, recently interviewed the Maximow Award Team about the competition and the experiences they have made. The interview will be available shortly in Russian and in English on KTTI.
We thank KTTI for the pleasent collaboration and we hope to deepen our cooperation in the future.
The Alexander A. Maximow Award 2011/2012
Scientific comment is now open on the articles highlighted in this phase of the Maximow Award contest. Anyone knowledgeable is invited to contribute public comments under their real name. These comments will appear next to the respective article (Example). The articles' authors themselves may contribute their replies if they like. These, too, will appear in the public comment thread. Authors may submit a full-length article to CTT that incorporates insights gained during this open peer review phase.
There are two ways to participate (everyone is welcome):
a. use the contact form of CTT, indicate in the subject line which article you wish to comment on, give your real name and send it off. Your comment will be published after a quick review by our moderators.
b. you may join the Maximow Award forum on this site and prepare your contribution interactively with colleagues before you send it off for publication near the article.
Articles for open peer review within the Maximow Award contest:
Restoration of bone marrow niches is the basis of optimization of HSC engraftment
www.ctt-journal.com/3-10-bozo-2011dec14.html
Ilya Ya. Bozo
In vitro models for stem cell transplantation
www.ctt-journal.com/3-10-sergeev-khramova-2011dec14.html
Sergey A. Sergeev, Ylia V. Khramova
Selected issues of the Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy gene and cell therapy
www.ctt-journal.com/3-10-shevchenko-2012jan10.html
Konstantin G. Shevchenko
Quality of life in patients with coronary artery disease after intracoronary administration of bone marrow mononuclear cells
www.ctt-journal.com/3-10-nesteruk-2012jan10.html
Julia A. Nesteruk
The role of CXCR4 and Lyn-kinase in stromal/leukemia interaction
www.ctt-journal.com/3-10-zagrivnaja-2012jan10.html
Maria V. Zagrivnaja
Detection of minimal residual disease in patients with acute myeloid leukemia with multicolor flow cytometry
www.ctt-journal.com/3-10-slobodnyuk-2012jan10.html
Konstantin U. Slobodnyuk
(nota bene: all other CTT articles are open for public comments, too, authors will be notified of every new comment)
The Maximow Award Organizing Team
