Weekly round-up #109

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Weekly round-up #109

Registration is open for our Immunometabolism Workshop, taking place in Oxford from 22-24 April 2020. To find out more about the programme, speakers, and how to register, visit the workshop webpage - registration closes on 18th March.

 

We have a number of new members that we would like to welcome to VALIDATE this week:

Investigators: Prof Yasuhiro Yasutomi (National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, Japan), Assoc Prof Igor Kramnik (Boston University, USA), Dr Richard Burchmore (University of Glasgow, UK) and Prof Walderez Dutra (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil).

Associates: Dr Shailendra Kumar Verma (Defence Research Development Establishment, India) and Dr Nidhi Gupta (Central University of Rajasthan, India).

 

We have also just released our 9th VALIDATE Newsletter, covering the first quarter of 2020. If you would like to catch-up on what's been going on at VALIDATE and in the vaccine R&D field for TB, leishmaniasis, melioidosis and leprosy, read more here.

Funding: 

  • TWAS Awards - For individual scientists who have been working and living in a developing country for at least 10 years - deadline 16 Mar 2020
  • TWAS-CUI Postgraduate Fellowship Programme - Fellowships for young scientists from developing countries (other than Pakistan) who wish to obtain all or part (sandwich or full-time) of their PhD in natural or social sciences - deadline 16 Mar 2020
  • TWAS-CUI Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme - Fellowships for young scientists from developing countries (other than Pakistan) who wish to pursue postdoctoral research in natural or social sciences - deadline 16 Mar 2020
  • AHRC Medical Humanities Awards - Prizes in the categories of: best research, best doctoral or early career research, best international research, best community led project, leadership award - deadline 18 Mar 2020
  • TWAS Research Grants in Basic Sciences (Individuals) - For projects in basic sciences carried out by research scientists in science & technology lacking countries - deadline 31 Mar 2020
  • TWAS Research Grants in Basic Sciences (Groups) - For projects in basic sciences carried out by research units in science & technology lacking countries - deadline 31 Mar 2020
  • Newton Prize - For current/previous award holders of a Newton funded grant, for Egypt, Jordan, Kenya, South Africa, and Turkey only - deadline 21 Apr 2020

There are plenty of further funding opportunities to look through on our external funding page.

 

Training Opportunities:

Our training opportunities page has previously spotted opportunities to help your career development.

 

Events:

Nothing new spotted this week, but take a look at our events page to see other upcoming events.

 

Job Opportunities: 

Go to our job webpage to see other vacancies we have listed.

 

Publications:

Our publications page has a list of papers that are relevant to our focus pathogens. Don't forget to let us know when you publish a paper and we will add it to our website.

 

Highlights on Twitter this week: Vanessa Muwanga, guest-blogger at FindAPhd.com, discusses 'the beautiful hustle of an international PhD application'; a broad range of stakeholders with expertise in the global TB battle met to discuss further development of a global TB vaccine research and development roadmap; University Mental Health Day took place on the 5th of March; WriteThatPhD's five-step guide on how to conduct & write a literature review; an infographic on diversity in science; and a new UK government DEFRA policy paper on their strategy for achieving bovine TB free status in England (various coverage in the media e.g. The Wildlife Trust, Guardian, BBC). We post relevant news and other developments of interest to our members on our Twitter account, so do check it out: @NetworkVALIDATE.

 

Published: 11 March 2020