Weekly round-up #116

Weekly round-up #116

Welcome to another packed VALIDATE round-up up of news and opportunities. Vaccines have been in the news a lot of late and for the last few days we have been supporting the World Health Organisation's World Immunization Week 2020 which, this year, aims to remind the world that #VaccinesWork.

VALID8 Interviews Launch

As part of World Immunization Week, we have launched VALID8, a series of short behind the scenes interviews where, through 8 short questions, we will delve into the research interests of our members and find out what they do day-to-day and why their research is so important. This will be an ongoing series that will be continually updated. We also encourage our members to take part.

So far we have had talked about elephants and TB with Dr Wynand Goosen, frustrating grant applications with Dr Monde Muyoyeta, and the "remarkable" human immune system with Associate Professor Mary Burtnick.

More interviews will be posted this week and this will be an ongoing series so check back regularly and visit the VALID8 webpage for details of how you can take part.

BSI Instagram Campaign

Funding: 

• UKRI Career Development Award (CDA) - The CDA supports talented post-doctoral researchers to lead their own research plans and establish their own research team to make the transition from post-doctoral researcher to independent investigator - deadline 6 May 2020

• Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowships - Offering recently qualified postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to start independent research careers, working in some of the best research environments in the world

You can find lots of further open grant calls on our funding opportunities page.

 

Training Opportunities and Events:

The Pandemic has meant that most face to face meetings and training has been cancelled or postponed. However, there are a few online events and courses that may be of interest to our members.

• The Union will host the Webinar – The Programmatic Management of TB in high burden countries during the initial COVID-19 response - TB is the number one infectious disease killer and now people with TB face an additional threat from the rapid spread across the world of the novel coronavirus which causes the disease COVID-19 - 30 April 2020 from 12:00 to 13:00 CEST/SAST (10:00 GMT)
  • The Union also has a number of online training resoures, including webinars, focusing on Tuberculosis.

We regularly tweet about online events and training that we spot so follow @NetworkValidate on Twitter. You can also find information on our Events webpage and training opportunities pages.

 

Job Opportunities: 

• Deputy Director, Clinical Next Generation Vaccines, Vaccine Development & Surveillance - Gates Foundation - Seattle, WA USA (no deadline stated)

• Senior Program Officer, Tuberculosis Delivery, Global Health - Gates Foundation - Seattle, WA USA (no deadline stated)

Visit our job webpage for further opportunities that are currently available.