News this week:

Funding:

• IVVN Female Fellowship Awards - for female LMIC researchers focusing on veterinary vaccine development - 28 Sept 2018
• EDCTP: Diagnostic tools for poverty-related diseases - for validation of the clinical performance and/or implementation of new or improved diagnostic tools and technologies for the detection of any PRDs - 11 Oct 2018

Training opportunities:

• TRANSVAC M1 course: Clinical vaccine development and biomanufacturing - applications close 1 July 2018
• TRANSVAC M2 course: Human and veterinary vaccine development - applications close 1 July 2018
• Early Career Trustee position, RSTMH - voluntary role for Early Career Researcher to sit on the RSTMH Board of Trustees - closes 30 July 2018
• TRANSVAC M3 course: Adjuvants and vaccine formulation - applications close 1 Nov 2018
• TRANSVAC M4 course: Validity and comparison of animal models - applications close 1 Nov 2018
• TRANSVAC M5 course: Statistics for vaccine evaluation - applications close 1 Feb 2019
• TRANSVAC M6 course: CyTOF - applications close 1 May 2019
• TRANSVAC M7 course: Flow cytometry - applications close 1 May 2019
• TRANSVAC M8 course: In vivo imaging - applications close 1 May 2019

Job opportunities:

• Senior Research Officer / Research Fellow (TB) - Menzies School of Health Research, Australia - 1 July 2018
• Post-doc (TB) - University of Birmingham - 16 July 2018

Events:

• Federation of Infection Societies Conference - Newcastle, UK, 3 Nov 2018

Don't forget to hold the 5-7th November 2018 in your diaries for our VALIDATE 2nd Annual Meeting. Keep an eye on our website for more details.

Papers of interest:

• BCG vaccine can reverse type 1 diabetes
• A modular transcriptional signature identifies phenotypic heterogeneity of human tuberculosis infection
• Old world cutaneous leishmaniasis and refugee crises in the Middle East and North Africa

Last, but not least, on Twitter we've spotted: an overview video explaining leprosy; news that the Serbia measles outbreak has caused 15 deaths, with 33% of patients requiring hospitalisation; worrying comments by Italy's new Deputy Prime Minister, Matteo Salvini, who dismissed mandatory vaccinations as "useless and in many cases dangerous"; grants available for public engagement from the BSI; GAVI's 'Monday motivation' that vaccines save 3 million lives every year; news that a polio outbreak has been declared in Papua New Guinea; and the UKRI policy internship scheme for PhD students funded by the Research Councils has now opened. Follow @NetworkValidate to easily keep up to date with all our news at VALIDATE and for vaccine development.

Published: 27 June 2018