Weekly round-up #64
- LSTM Skills Development Fellowships - provides ECRs the opportunity to explore, consolidate and develop their skills; for candidates with a background in mathematics, stats, computation, informatics, health economics and/or mixed methods applicable to biomedicine - deadline 24 Mar 2019
For other funding opportunities check out our external funding page.
Nothing new this week, so visit our training opportunities page for lots of ideas to develop your career.
- Owning your career - free online workshop to help women leaders develop this careers, run by Oxford University but available to all between 8-31 March 2019
- NC3Rs: Research Review Launch and 2019 3Rs Prize Presentation - Latest review of NC3Rs research portfolio, including presentations from funded scientists - 18 March 2019, London
- LSHTM: Women in Health Lecture 2019: Mahima Datla - Minimising the gap in access to immunisation - 21 March 2019, London
Don't forget to hold the date for the VALIDATE 3rd Annual Meeting and Scientific Conference on 1-3 October 2019.
Visit our events page for further events.
- Lecturers (non-clinical), Imperial College London - 31 March 2019
- Head of Bioscience, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust, Kenya - deadline 30 April 2019
Find all the vacancies in our field on our website.
- Selective delipidation of Mycobacterium bovis BCG enables direct pulmonary vaccination and enhances protection against Mycobacterium tuberculosis - Mucosal Immunology
- Latent TB Infection - Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis and the dynamics of the granuloma battleground - Intl J Inf Dis
- The way forward for tuberculosis vaccines - Resp Med - by VALIDATE member Richard White and collaborators
- A comparison of antigen-specific T cell responses induced by six novel tuberculosis vaccine candidates - Plos Pathogens
- Outcomes of controlled human malaria infection after BCG vaccination - Nature Comms
Do let us know if you publish a paper so that we can publicise it to our members. Have a look at our publications page for publications of interest by our members and in the fields of our focus pathogens.
Highlights on Twitter this week: Seven tips for making the leap from academia to industry; the latest study confirming that MMR vaccination does not increase risk for autism or trigger autism; honouring the 26th anniversary of Dr Sabin's death, and his oral polio vaccine research; how a 14 day detection drive in India uncovered a 40% increase in total cases compared to the year before; Wellcome Trust tips and guidance to setting up your own research group; the latest leprosy publications from Infolep; an article about anti-vaxxer promotion on Facebook and Amazon; an ITV News report on the damage caused by the anti-vaxxer movement and how we can counter it; funding awarded to CureVac to develop vaccine printer technology; just out: the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Vaccinations for All report "The Next Decade of Vaccines"; and canine leishmaniasis diagnosis by eNose.
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Published: 6 March 2019