The VALIDATE Network - Vaccine development for complex intracellular neglected pathogens
Don't forget about our upcoming Collaboration Week, running 12-16 October. This will be 5 days of activities aimed at helping our members develop successful research partnerships, so do join in!
Wellcome Research Enrichment – Diversity and Inclusion - For Wellcome grantholders to identify and tackle barriers to diversity and inclusion in their work - deadline 24 Sept 2020, 12 Jan 2021, 9 Apr 2020 More funding opportunities can be found on our funding page.
Training Opportunities and Events:
ERC funding opportunities for non-EU researchers, ERC online webinar series, 15-16 September 2020
Is it business as usual? What innovation is needed in NTDs to reach the 2030 targets across 20 diseases?, WHO online webinar, 18 September 2020
MOOC on implementation research: infectious diseases of poverty, TDR online course, starts 5 October 2020 (register by 25 September 2020)
How to make great CVs for industry and academia, Nature Careers, online webinar, 9 October 2020
Grant Writing & Project Management online courses, Bactivac, register by 11 October 2020
You will find more interesting opportunities on our Training and Events pages.
Job Opportunities:
Nothing new this week, but you can view vacancies on our jobs page.
Mapping global trends in vaccine confidence and investigating barriers to vaccine uptake: a large-scale retrospective temporal modelling study, by VALIDATE members Heidi Larson and Emilie Karafillakis and collaborators, in The Lancet
Multicomponent gold nano-glycoconjugate as a highly immunogenic and protective platform against Burkholderia mallei, by VALIDATE members Daniel Tapia, Javier Sanchez-Villamil and Alfredo Torres, in npj Vaccines
Characterization of a new Leishmania major isolate for use in a controlled human infection model, by VALIDATE members Vivak Parkash, Charles Jaffe, Paul Kaye and collaborators, preprint on BioRxiv
Highlights on Twitter this week
Science magazine discusses whether prisoners should participate in COVID vaccine trials; WriteThatPhD has an 8-step guide to writing a literature review; Nature Careers talks about overcoming imposter syndrome; a new Global Fund report is 'a call to action to urgently invest to protect decades of progress against HIV, TB and malaria that are being derailed as a knock-on effect of the COVID-19 pandemic'; and VALIDATE Fellow Rachel Tanner is interviewed by 500womenscientists about her work on the COVID vaccine trial - and she gives a great plug for TB vaccine research! 10 simple rules for finishing your PhD by UCT Postgrad Studies; AuthorAID mentor Rachel Strohm shares her top tips on academic writing; Nature Careers discusses eliminating bias in promotion and grant reviews; VALIDATE member Heidi Larson has been publicising her new book 'Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start – and Why they Don’t Go Away'; Hugh Kearns talks about the care and maintenance of your PhD advisor; AAS and IAVI outline how to increase the participation of women scientists in Africa's scientific leadership; and you can nominate outstanding African research leaders and African-European research teams for EDCTP's awards before 29 October. Follow @NetworkVALIDATE to keep up to date.
Published: 16 September 2020
