Weekly round-up #119

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Weekly Round-up #119

 

After a week away due to annual leave in our team, we are back with Weekly Round-up #119. This is a rather packed issue with info on updates to our webpages, our plans for VALIDATE's upcoming birthday and the usual selection of funding calls, job vacancies and publications. 

Welcome New Members

Our community continues to expand with two new Affiliate members joining the network:

  • Dr Shikama Felicien joins us from the University Teaching Hospital of Butare (CHUB). With the addition of Dr Felicien, Rwanda becomes the 51st country where VALIDATE is represented. As well as holding senior clinical and research roles at CHUB, Shikama is the General Secretary of the Rwanda Society of Hepa-togastroenterologyand Secretary of the Rwanda Society for Endoscopy.

     

  • Associate Professor Dr Paramdeep Singh is a radiologist at Baba Farid University of Health Sciences with a long and distinguished career that includes extensive teaching, research and clinical work.

 

VALIDATE’s Third Birthday – 1 June 2020

The VALIDATE Network launched on 1 June 2017, which means next week is our 3rd birthday! We want to mark this occasion with a whole week of online activities. We are not expecting any expensive gifts from our members, but you can help us mark our birthday in the following ways:

  1. If you have been helped by VALIDATE and are happy for us to highlight this, we'd love to hear your story – drop us an email at validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk
    • You can also share your story on Twitter or LinkedIn with the hashtag #HappyBirthdayVALIDATE.
  2. On the 1st of June, share our recently updated Benefits Page on social media and with colleagues who might be interested in membership and encourage them to join VALIDATE.
  3. Follow us on Twitter and connect with us on LinkedIn so you can retweet and share our posts throughout our birthday week - and so we can share your highlights with other members in the network!
  4. We will be continuing our VALID8 interview series. If you wish to take part, drop your answers to the 8 questions and email them to validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk.

 

VALIDATE Website Updates

The VALIDATE Team have continued to make improvements to the website to make it even more user-friendly and useful, including:

  1. Pathogens Pages: We have updated our Pathogens Page. Each pathogen now has a separate page where you can find information about the disease as well as a list of members working on each pathogen - so you can more easily connect with relevant researchers in VALIDATE.
     

  2. Benefits Page: Our “Benefits of VALIDATE Membership” page has also had a bit of a refresh. As mentioned above, it is our hope that you will share this on social media and among your colleagues as part of our birthday celebrations next week.

 

Nature Research Awards for Inspiring and Innovating Science - Now Open

The Awards for Inspiring and Innovating Science, hosted by Nature Research in partnership with The Estée Lauder Companies, strives to celebrate and support the achievements of women in science and to encourage girls and young women to engage with STEM subjects. You can apply for an award, or nominate a colleague (perhaps a fellow VALIDATE Member) by 14 June, on the Nature research website.

 

Funding: 

  • Royal Society Research Professorships - The Royal Society Research Professorships are the Society's premier research awards, which provide long term support to world-class researchers of outstanding achievement and promise - deadline 3 June 2020

There is more information on other funding opportunities on our regularly updated funding opportunities.

 

Training Opportunities and Events:

Check out our regularly updated Training Opportunities and Events pages.

Job Opportunities

Keep an eye on our jobs page which we update regularly.

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Publications:

Highlights on Twitter this week

On Monday 18 May, we promoted the BSI’s Career Development Webinars and ISNTD Connect’s webinar "Anti-leishmania drugs and skin microbiota in cutaneous leishmaniasis patients" hosted by VALIDATE Member Dr Alvaro Acosta-Serrano. On 22 May BactiVax promoted a blog post about vaccine misconceptions. On 25 of May we retweeted BactiVac who were marking Africa Day 2020. On May 25 we also retweeted Professor Heidi Larson who was tweeting about the erosion of trust in institutions and the threat of the anti-vax movement during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The debate over BCG and its potential impact on COVID-19 continued to rage and on Tuesday 19 May we shared the brilliantly named article "Stop Playing With Data: There Is No Sound Evidence That Bacille Calmette-Guérin May Avoid SARS-CoV-2 Infection (For Now)". Throughout the week we also launched our separate tuberculosis, leishmaniasis, melioidosis and leprosy pathogen pages.  

Be sure to follow @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter next week as we celebrate 3 years of VALIDATE!

 

Published: 27 May 2020