Weekly round-up #53
This week we are thoroughly excited to have reached 200 members in the VALIDATE network! This is a fantastic achievement, and opens up so many collaborative opportunities across the world for our members. Don't forget that you can find out more about each member's research in our members directory.
We would like to offer a warm welcome to our most recent new members:
New Investigators: Prof Johnjoe McFadden (University of Surrey, UK); Dr Alberto García-Basteiro (CISM, Mozambique); and Dr Rhea Coler (University of Washington/IDRI, USA)
New Associates: Dr Peeraya Ekchariyawat (Mahidol University, Thailand); Dr Ji-Sook Lee (LSHTM, UK); Dr Diane Lee (University of Surrey, UK); and Dr Sarah Sebastian (Vaccitech Ltd, UK)
New Affiliates: Dr Nawamin Pinpathomrat (University of Oxford, UK); Emily Hoogkamer (University of Oxford, UK); Dr Sarah Leonard (Immunocore, UK); Dr Keith Haffer (AdvantageBio, USA); Rachel Wittenberg (University of Oxford, UK); Dr Salem Almujri (University of Oxford, UK); Marine Meunier (Valneva SE, France); Fotsa Forjoh Blondeau (University of Buea, Cameroon); Dr Ugochukwu Madubueze (Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, Nigeria); Laura Hunter (PHE, UK); Dr Ritika Sengupta (ICMR, India); and Ms Julia Bitencourt (IGM-FIOCRUZ, Brazil)
We are also very pleased to announce that we have awarded another round of VALIDATE training grants - congratulations to the successful applicants! This round of grants will go to:
Dr Paulo Bettencourt (University of Oxford, UK) - to visit and train at Albert Einstein College of Medicine Immunology
Dr Khushboo Borah (University of Surrey, UK) - to attend a training course and lab exchange at ICL
Dr Olayinka Osuolale (Elizade University, Nigeria) - to attend the ADVAC course
Dr Elena Stylianou (University of Oxford, UK) - to present at the Keystone Symposium 2019
Our next training grant round will open shortly, so if you're an Associate do apply if you have a lab exchange, workshop or course that would help your career progression.
- Antibodies.com Travel Grants - next round decided in Dec 2018
- Wellcome Trust Human Infection Studies for Vaccine Development grant - for researchers working on human infection studies in LMICs, aiming to accelerate vaccine development - deadline 7 Jan 2019
- AAI Early Career Travel Grant - to attend the AAI Annual Meeting - deadline 14 Jan 2019
- E.W. "AI" Thrasher Awards - for projects to improve children's health through medical research, focusing on those with potential to translate into clinically meaningful results within a few years - deadline late March 2019
- Thrasher Research Fund Early Career Awards - for early career researchers wishing to remain in paediatrics - deadline 12 March 2019
Take a look at our website for more external funding opportunities.
LSHTM Control and Elimination of Visceral Leishmaniasis Online Course - starts 7 Jan 2019
Our training opportunities page has information about even more opportunities.
Our events page has information about any upcoming external events that we have spotted.
LSHTM PhD position - Mathematical modelling and molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission - deadline 13 Jan 2019
All other opportunities that we have picked up can be found on our website: do let us know if you have a vacancy in your lab so that we can advertise it for you.
Validation of a new serological assay for the identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex-specific antibodies in pigs and wild boar in Preventative Veterinary Medicine
More papers can be found on our publications page - make sure to let us know when you publish a paper so that we can add it to our website.
On Twitter this week: Find out about attempts to use skin images and AI technology to detect leprosy earlier; North and South Korea have agreed to a joint public-health initiative to tackle TB and malaria; read an editorial in the Lancet about "Looking Beyond the Decade of Vaccines"; the African Academy of Sciences is inviting organisations to submit their interest in developing an open database for clinical trial capacities and sites on the African continent; Seth Berkley and Jeremy Farrar write in Project Syndicate about the role of vaccines in reducing the spread of drug-resisitant strains; Stop TB has announced the 2019 World TB Day theme as "IT'S TIME"; and watch UK MP Nick Herbert talk about "Global Political Leadership to End TB".
Follow @NetworkVALIDATE to keep up to date with the latest news and information.
Published: 21 November 2018