The March and April Paper of the Month awards were announced by Deputy Head of School A/Professor Noel Whitaker at the May BABS staff meeting.

The March award was won by PhD student John Burdach who was first author on the paper from Dean Merlin Crossley's lab for the paper:

Burdach, J., O'Connell, M.R., Mackay, J.P. & Crossley, M., 2012, 'Two-timing zinc finger transcription factors liaising with RNA', Trends in Biochemical Sciences, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 199-205.

The full paper can be read here. Trends in Biochemical Sciences has an impact factor of 10.40.


The April award was won by A/Professor Peter White for the paper:

Grebely, J., Pham, S.T., Matthews, G.V., Petoumenos, K., Bull, R.A., Yeung, B., Rawlinson, W., Kaldor, J., Lloyd, A., Hellard, M., Dore, G.J. & White, P.A., 2012, 'Hepatitis C virus reinfection and superinfection among treated and untreated participants with recent infection', Hepatology, vol., 55, no. 4, pp. 1058-1069.

The full paper can be read here. Hepatology has an impact factor of 10.89.