Thursday, September 29, 2011

Best Mauscript Award

Found a mail from my mentor with a letter stating the following -

"Dear Dr. Hariharan and Dr. Sadoshima, 


 The Editors of Circulation Research are continuing a new initiative implemented two years ago, the annual Best Manuscript Awards, which is aimed at recognizing the most outstanding articles published in our journal. The presentation of the Best Manuscript Awards will take place at the annual Circulation Research editorial board dinner during the AHA Scientific Sessions 2011 in Orlando, Florida. 
Five papers will be recognized among all 219 original research articles published in Circulation Research from July 2010 to June 2011. We are pleased to inform you that your manuscript {Hariharan et al., Deacetylation of FoxO by Sirt1 Plays an Essential Role in Mediating Starvation-Induced Autophagy in Cardiac Myocytes. Circ Res. 2010;107:1470–1482} has been selected by the Editors as one of the five winners of our 2011 Best Manuscript Awards. Your article has met high standards of scientific excellence in terms of novelty, impact, and methodology; it has been widely read online following publication, and represents some of the very best work published in Circulation Research. 
We cordially invite you to attend the annual Circulation Research editorial board dinner, where the award will be presented to you. The dinner will take place at The Peabody Orlando on Sunday, November 13th at 8:00 PM (7:00 PM Reception). The favor of your response is greatly appreciated. 
Congratulations again for an outstanding article and for your contributions to Circulation Research. 


 Sincerely, 
Roberto Bolli, 
MD Editor-in-Chief Circulation Research, 
Journal of the American Heart Association" 

 Thank you God and Dr. Sadoshima for guiding me all through!

Thursday, September 01, 2011

Tolerance...

Where does tolerance actually end? When you are tolerant towards people with their differences in caste, color, religion, race, sex, it's good. But suppose somebody makes a racist comment in front of you, although not directly at you, are you still supposed to be tolerant? Does it count as intolerance to open your mouth and say that its wrong/politically incorrect/unethical to say things like that??

Just wondering.. I'm telling myself to let it go and be tolerant of other people's flaws..But am I on the other hand being tolerant of somebody else's intolerance??
If people in Nazi Germany hadn't been so tolerant of one dictator's intolerance, could 60 million people's lives have been saved??

Hmmmm.. where and how does all this figure.. I wonder... :S And where does tolerance actually end??