Weekly round-up #107

Weekly round-up #107

This week we are welcoming two new Affiliate members, Koffi Nouho Ouattara from Nangui Abrogoua University, Côte d’Ivoire, and Emma Taylor from Aberystwyth University, UK. At VALIDATE, we encourage anyone working (or interested) in vaccine R&D for TB, leishmaniasis, melioidosis and leprosy to join our network, so do get in touch. To find out about the benefits of joining VALIDATE, click here.

We would like to remind you that there is now less than one week to apply for a VALIDATE Training Grant as the closing date is 24 Feb 2020 at 16:00 (UK). If you would like to find out more details about the remit of this call, take a look at the call webpage.

Funding:

IUIS Early Career Research Prize in Vaccinology R&D - Prize rewarding significant achievement in vaccines research and development in Europe - deadline 29 Feb 2020
BBSRC David Phillips Fellowships - Support for researchers wishing to establish their first independent research group - deadline 12 May 2020
BBSRC Discovery Fellowships - Support for researchers wishing to undertake independent research and gain leadership skills - deadline 12 May 2020
NRF Postdoctoral Fellowships - Freestanding, Innovation and Scarce Skills opportunities for 2021
NRF Thuthuka Funding - PhD Track, Post-PhD Track and NRF Rating Track opportunities for 2021

Have a look through other relevant funding opportunities on our external funding page.

Training Opportunities:

TRANSVAC2 Wp17 Workshop 'Aerosol administration, devices and methods used in respiratory infection studies' - To provide tools and recommendations for the use of aerosols in disease and vaccination studies, Lelystad, The Netherlands, 11 Mar 2020 (deadline to apply 1 Mar 2020)
Worldwide Universities Network Summer School - 10 day programme for students of all disciplines at the University of York, UK, 13-24 Jul 2020 (deadline to apply 30 Mar 2020)

Go to our training opportunities page for more opportunities in your career development.

Events:

UUKi-BEIS Delivering Official Development Assistance - Regional Meetings - Various locations in UK, between 21 Apr - 21 May 2020
6th Global Forum on TB Vaccines - Toulouse, France, 20-22 Apr 2021

Previously spotted events can be seen on our events page.

Job Opportunities:

Postdoctoral Position in TB/HIV co-infection - IPBS, Toulouse, France, deadline 15 Mar 2020
Postdoctoral Fellowships - NRF, opportunities for 2021

Visit our job webpage to see other current vacancies.

Publications:

The potential of live attenuated vaccines against cutaneous leishmaniasis in Experimental Parasitology
Mycobacterial virulence: impact on immunogenicity and vaccine research in F1000Research

We keep our publications page up to date with interesting papers of by our members, take a look to read more in the fields of our focus pathogens.

Highlights on Twitter this week: USAID has announced a commitment of $1.16 billion over four years to support Gavi; tips for PhD students on overcoming writers block; some ideas on words to avoid when writing and how to correct them by Arjun Raj; a checklist and template to critically review your own paper before submission to your supervisor/a journal; an article by Kirsten Wiens at ThinkGlobalHealth on "Diabetes and TB - a complicating combo"; John Malloy discusses the challenges of paying for conference attendance and the disproportional hit on grad students, in Nature; and the Nature Career's Working Scientist podcast starts a four-parter on how to write a top-notch paper. Follow @NetworkVALIDATE to stay up to date on all the news and developments in our field.

Published: 19 February 2020