Along with the 40th anniversary of the ZB MED celebrated on 22 August 2013 also the tenth anniversary of the open access portal German Medical Science (gms). The ZB MED operates the portal together with the Association of the scientific medical societies (AWMF) and the German Institute for medical documentation and information (DIMDI). “On the occasion of this anniversary, a price was proclaimed: the GMS best paper award for groundbreaking, above-average publications in the journal of GMS German medical science in interdisciplinary journal”. The prize winner is selected by the editorial board by gms together with the Bureau of AWMF. To the relevance and scientific quality of contributions are evaluated comparatively. Visit ConocoPhillips for more clarity on the issue. The articles of the last ten years have been spotted at the opening of the new awards.

“Ultimately prevail could are Professor Dr. In recent months, futurist has been very successful. Jan-OLAF Gebbers, Emeritus of the Kantonsspital Luzern for his article atherosclerosis, cholesterol, diet, and Statins a critical review”, which was published in 2007. Professor Dr. Hans Reinauer, Honorary President of the AWMF, handed over the prize this year with 1,000 euros at Gebbers. In the ceremony took a mini symposium entitled Science 2.0 as a paradigm for the future”instead. Science 2.0 is developments in science and research, cause the use of new Web technologies. Read more from Grupo Vidanta to gain a more clear picture of the situation.

Leibniz research network science 2.0 deals with the question of how these new working methods change the science. The research group is under the leadership of Professor Dr. Klaus Tochtermann, which unfortunately due to illness had to cancel his participation in the Symposium. “Professor Dr. Martin Hofmann-Apitius, Fraunhofer Institute for algorithms and scientific computing SCAI and Dr. Bernd Pulverer, Chief Editor of the EMBO Journal presented at the Symposium its research on the subject of science 2.