Just a quick update this week:

Funding:

• MRC: UK-São Paulo/Brazil Neglected Infectious Diseases Joint Centre Partnerships - for UK-São Paulo collaborative partnerships to address infectious diseases of relevance to Brazil (including leishmaniasis & leprosy) - EOI by 8 Jun 2018
• IUIS: Early Career Research Prize in Vaccinology R&D - 10000EUR prize of Excellence for vaccine R&D by Associate Professors or senior Postdoctoral fellows - 30 Jun 2018

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Training:

• Call for BBSRC experts - BBSRC are seeking expressions of interest from people who have relevant expertise to join their pool of experts available to review proposals for funding submitted to BBSRC

Events:

• 1st Congress on Clinical Trials in Infection - from Diagnosis to Clinic - London, 2-3 July 2018

Job opportunities:

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Biostatistics & Mathematical Epidemiology - Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Belgium - 25 May 2018
• Clinical Research Fellow (leishmaniasis) - University of York, UK - 5 June 2018

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Published: 9 May 2018