Last authors are frequently the heads of laboratories, who may or may not be the intellectual driving force behind a paper but who, by putting their names to it, take both credit and responsibility for what is in it.
Moreover, a short written survey was sent to heads of departments, heads of laboratories, radiologists, PACS application administrators or information and communication technology (ICT) staff from 39 Dutch hospitals to determine the common practice for cross enterprise data sharing.
Many of these prolific scientists are likely the heads of laboratories or research groups; they bring in funding, supervise research, and add their names to the numerous papers that result.
In the GSSND, heads of laboratories have to send notification of STEC cases, and clinicians are legally mandated to report HUS cases within 24 hours to the local health department by fax, telephone, or letter (5 ).
This result could be achieved if physicians and heads of laboratories could feed their data into a centralized database shared by local health departments, state health departments, and RKI with different access rights.
He then moved to Rockefeller University in New York, USA, where he is presently Professor and Head of Laboratory.
Head of Virology Laboratory, Children's Hospital of Mexico "Federico Gomez", 1997 to 2005; Head of Laboratory Immunology, National Institute of Perinatology, 1986 to 1997.
BMV is a PhD and Head of Laboratory of Oxide Nanocomposites of Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry, Kyiv, Ukraine.
NL is the Head of laboratory; ET, NS, SK, AP, MS are senior researchers; GT is a PhD student.
Currently she is the Head of Laboratory for Organic Analytical Chemistry within the Department of Environmental Sciences, Jožef Stefan Institute and appointed Associate Professor in the Ecotechnology programme at the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
