Weekly round-up #237
Welcoming Adesola - New VALIDATE Junior Project Manager
VALIDATE is very pleased to welcome a new member of the team. Adesola Adewumi will be working as the VALIDATE Network Junior Project Manager. Sola works with Samantha Vermaak on VALIDATE programmes. If you have any questions relating to projects and programmes within VALIDATE, do get in touch with Sola - adesola.adewumi@tss.ox.ac.uk
Two new VALIDATE Funding Schemes
We are pleased to announce the opening of two new funding schemes designed to support our members' research - The Open Access Fund and the Small Equipment Grants
Open Access Fund: VALIDATE has received funding to support LMIC members (Associates and early-PI Investigators) in publishing original peer-reviewed articles in covering costs to make their publication open-access, as this has two main benefits:
- Increased visibility and citations of the article and its authors
- Access to the article for all VALIDATE members, disseminating information and widening access to VALIDATE-relevant research
Find out more about this scheme on the Open Access Fund page.
Small Equipment Grants: VALIDATE is also offering small equipment grants are of up to £10,000 per laboratory, to help LMIC VALIDATE members purchase essential small equipment laboratory items (e.g. microscopes, centrifuges, incubators, freezers, fridges, pipettes, water baths etc) that will improve their research. Applicants must be a VALIDATE Associate or Investigator member, based in an LMIC.
Find out more about this scheme on the Small Equipment Grants Page.
- MRC - Better methods, better research - Funding to improve the methods used by others in biomedical and health research - 8 November 2022
- MRC - Clinical Academic Research Partnerships, 2022 - This scheme offered a new mechanism for clinical staff at consultant level with a PhD or MD who were not currently research active to participate in collaborative high-quality research partnerships - deadline 17 November 2022
- MRC African Research Leader scheme 2023 - Supports clinicians to undertake a PhD or other higher research degree - deadline 1 December 2022
- BSI public engagement funding: our updated grant scheme - Provides financial support to help BSI members develop and deliver activities to engage with the public in all formats - deadline 1 February 2022 and 1 June 2023
You can find a list of all relevant external funding we've spotted for our members on our external funding page.
Training Opportunities and Events:
- The Union Conference - World Conference on Lung Health 2022, Virtual Event, 8 - 11 November 2022
- yEfis 1st Symposium, Berlin, Germany. 10 - 11 November 2022
- Global Health Network Conference 2022, Cape Town, South Africa. 24 - 25 November 2022
- MRC Board and Panel Vacancies, MRC, London, UK, deadline 30 September 2022
- Research Associate in Immunology, The Hull York Medical School, University of York, UK, deadline 26 October 2022
Publications:
- Corrigendum to "Exploring new immunological insight on SP15 (∼14 kDa) family protein in saliva of Indian sand-fly (Phlebotomus argentipes) in experimental visceral leishmaniasis". [Cellular Immunology 332 (2018) 51-57], Pushpanjali GA et al, in Cellular Immunology
- Differential detection of IgM and IgG antibodies to chimeric antigens in bovine tuberculosis, Sridhara A et al, in Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology
- SIRPα maintains macrophage homeostasis by interacting with PTK2B kinase in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and through autophagy and necroptosis, Wang D et al, in eBioMedicine
Check out our Publications Page for members' publications and email VALIDATE@ndm.ox.ac.uk if you have a paper you would like us to include.
Highlights on Twitter this week:
VALIDATE Investigator Siobhán McClean was excited to be at the BactiVac Summer School, the BSI announced the date and location of their 2023 Congress, and Nature Careers had an article on how to continue your research when life gets in the way. AuthorAid shared a webinar about Research Funding, and AMS Careers shared a quote from VALIDATE's own Prof Helen McShane "Great collaborations are built on the synergy between what you bring and what the other partner brings". Dr Arinjay Banerjee had some advice for applying to Laboratories for graduate studies, WorldLeish7 shared some photos from their recent conference, and we shared a Health Policy News article about the reduction of childhood vaccine uptake in LMICS. ABC in Australia reported on the potential of a new TB vaccine and talked to the researchers. Nature launched NatureTech where they spotlight the technology behind research and VALIDATE member Alfredo Torres shared his presentation on The Art of Making Vaccines. Keep up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter.
Published: 5 October 2022