Weekly round-up #96
Huge congratulations to Dr Rachel Tanner, VALIDATE Fellow and TB postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, who has won the Women of the Future Award for Science 2019! This is a phenomenal achievement, and we're absolutely delighted for her.
Welcome to VALIDATE to our newest members:
Investigators: Dr Adam Whelan (Dstl, UK), Dr Jérôme Nigou (University of Toulouse, France), Prof Mahdad Noursadeghi (UCL, UK), Dr Laith Yakob (LSHTM, UK), Assoc Prof Colin Kenyon (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), Prof Benedikt Kessler (University of Oxford, UK), Prof Jayne Hope (University of Edinburgh, UK), Prof Ivo Steinmetz (Medical University of Graz, Austria), and Dr Erlina Burhan (Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia).
Associates: Assoc Prof Hao Li (China Agricultural University, China), and Dr Léanie Kleynhans (Stellenbosch University, South Africa).
Affiliate: Prof Abdul Al-Bari (University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh).
- Immunology PhDs - Karolinska Institutet, deadline 26 Nov 2019
- AAS Post-doctoral training at NIH - fellowships to African researchers to spend two years at the USA's NIH - deadline 1 Dec 2019
- Sanger Institute Prize Competition 2020 - the winner of the Sanger Institute Prize (for LMIC undergraduates) will be offered a three-month internship with a research group at the Wellcome Sanger Institute with travel, living and research expenses all covered - deadline 6 Dec 2019
- Wellcome Biomedical Resource Grants - for researchers who want to establish new biomedical resources (including databases and collections) or substantially enhance existing ones - deadline 9 Jan 2020
- Wellcome Multi-user Equipment Grants - provide support for multi-user items of equipment for UK/LMIC researchers - deadline 9 Jan 2020
- MRC Applied Global Health Research Board - funds global health reserach embedded in local contexts in LMICs with practical applications to improve health - deadline 7 Apr 2020 and 6 Oct 2020
Find all other funding opportunities on our external funding page.
- African Advanced Bioinformatics Workshop - 10-15 May 2020 at University of Ghana (application deadline 8 Jan 2020). Bursaries available.
Visit our training opportunities page for further ideas to develop your career.
- The first ever World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day will be held on 30 Jan 2020
- IABS 3rd Human Challenge Trials in Vaccine Development Meeting - Oxford 6-7 Feb 2020
Visit our events page for all the other events coming up in our field.
- Immunology PhDs - Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, deadline 26 Nov 2019
- AAS Post-doctoral training at NIH - fellowships to African researchers to spend two years at the USA's NIH, deadline 1 Dec 2019
- Group Leader Position in Immunology - IMP, Vienna, deadline 15 Jan 2020
- Group Leader positions - CIML, France, deadline 1 Mar 2020
- PhD scholarships - University of Queensland, Australia, deadline ongoing (open to Australian and international students)
To view any previously spotted vacancies, visit our job webpage.
- Dispersal patterns in a medium-density Irish badger population: implications for understanding the dynamics of tuberculosis transmission - in Ecology and Evolution
- First-in-human trials of GamTBvac, a recombinant subunit tuberculosis vaccine candidate: safety and immunogenicity assessment - in Vaccines
- Potential effect of BCG vaccination on global paediatric tuberculosis mortality: a modelling study - in The Lancet Global Health, by VALIDATE members Rebecca Harris and Richard White and their collaborators
- Cytomegalovirus antibody responses associated with increased risk of TB disease in Ugandan adults - in JID, by VALIDATE members Lisa Stockdale and Helen Fletcher and collaborators
- The public health crisis of underimmunisation: a global plan of action - in the Lancet Infectious Diseases
Our publications page highlights papers of interest by our members and in the fields of our focus pathogens. If you publish a relevant paper, let us know so that we can highlight it to our members.
Highlights on Twitter this week: IVVN's Mike Francis writes about the role of vaccines in OneHealth; great to see VALIDATE Director Helen McShane discussing why we need a human TB challenge model at our sister GCRF Vaccinology Network HIC-VAC's 2019 annual meeting; also great to hear about the progress towards a leishmaniasis challenge model by VALIDATE members Paul Kaye and Viv Parkash at the HIC-VAC meeting; self-management strategies to help you stay ontrack in your PhD; Global Health funders announce an almost 70% reduction in the price of rifapentine; the UK government pledges £220million for NTD treatments; trying to reduce single use plastics in the lab; and 100 rules to help you successfully complete your PhD thesis. Follow @NetworkVALIDATE to easily keep up to date.
Published: 20 November 2019