Weekly round-up #137
Weekly Round-up #137
Welcome to VALIDATE’s Weekly Round-up #137. Another issue packed with the usual events and opportunities - and we welcome some new faces to the network.
Welcome New VALIDATE Members!
September has seen our community continue to grow with ten new members.
New Network Investigators
- Dr Maria Adelaida Gomez is the Coordinator of the Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Lab at CIDEIM, Columbia
- Prof Michele Miller is a Professor leading the animal TB research program at Stellenbosch University, South Africa
New Network Associates
- Dr Chelsea Davis is Postdoctoral Research Assistant at Aberystwyth University, UK
- Dr Subhash Mehto is an Immunologist and Cell Biologist at the Institute of Life Sciences, India
- Prof Somasish Ghosh Dastidar is the Ramalingaswami Fellow, Kasturba Medical College, India
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Mr Mohammad Siddiqur Rahman Khan is a Biological Scientist at the University of Florida, USANew Network Affiliates
- Mr Godwin Attah Obande is a lecturer at the Department of Microbiology, Federal University of Lafia, Nigeria
- Mr Richard Pizzey is a PhD Student at the Aberystwyth University, UK
- Mr Marco Polo Peralta Alvarez is a DPhil Student at the University of Oxford, UK
- Mr Temitope Popoola is a researcher at the Institute for Trypanosomiasis And Onchocerciasis Research, Nigeria
With the addition of Dr Adelaida Gomez, Columbia becomes VALIDATE's 54th member country. VALIDATE now has over 400 members around the world. We are always keen to grow our community, so please let your colleagues know about the benefits of VALIDATE membership and encourage them to join.
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Dorothy Temple Cross Tuberculosis International Collaboration Grants - support new collaborations between UK and African researchers in the field of tuberculosis, to develop emerging researchers in both countries – deadline 14 October 2020
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NIH Secondary Analysis of Existing Datasets for Advancing Infectious Disease Research - To support projects that utilise open-access data to address knowledge gaps in basic/clinical research of infectious disease - deadline 16 October 2020
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NIH Planning Grant for Global Infectious Disease Research Training Program - To support an LMIC-US collaborative planning process that will prepare faculty and design courses and resources for a research training programme - deadline 28 October 2020
Remember, we always update our funding page with any opportunities we spot, so relevant calls are all in one location for you.
Training Opportunities and Events:
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Tuberculosis: Science Aimed at Ending the Epidemic, VKS, Online, 2-4 December 2020
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Workshops and Post-Graduate Courses, The Union, Online, various dates and topics throughout October and November 2020
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51st Union World Conference on Lung Health, The Union, Online, 21-24 October 2020
You will find more interesting opportunities on our Training and Events pages.
Job Opportunities:
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Council Boards and Panel Vacancies, Medical Research Council UK (accepting applications from UK and Europe), deadline 5 October 2020
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Chief Operating Officer, UKRI, London UK, deadline 15 October 2020
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Clinical Lecturer-in Respiratory Medicine, University of Glasgow, UK, deadline 21 October 2020
Keep up to date with all the relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.
- Payment in challenge studies: ethics, attitudes and a new payment for risk model, Grimwade O et al, in The Journal of Medical Ethics
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Glycan–glycan interactions determine Leishmania attachment to the midgut of permissive sand fly vectors, Hall AR et al including VALIDATE Members Laith Yakob and Matthew Rogers, in Chemical Science
Highlights on Twitter this week
The Newton Fund discussed their work with Mexico and their Newton Mosharafa PhD Programme with Egypt. The BSI promoted their Guide to Childhood Vaccinations and their new virtual issue of Immunology and the Microbiome. Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases celebrated #GlobalGoalsWeek and AAS Clinical Trials Community have been enhancing the visibility and transparency of investments made in the clinical trials community. University College London have launched their strategy to end TB in Europe, WGC Advanced Courses and Scientific Conferences were promoting their Bioinformatics course in Vietnam and the Academy of Medical Sciences provided some excellent examples of great layman summaries from previous successful grant applicants. Write that PhD provided some tips for using a storytelling approach for writing research papers and the Global TB Caucus shared a Forbes article about the impact of Covid on meeting global TB targets.
Follow @NetworkVALIDATE to keep up to date on all the news and views in our field.
Published: 30 September 2020
