Weekly round-up #153
Weekly Round-up #153
Welcome to Weekly Round-up #153. It's packed with the usual updates about funding, events and the latest publications our members will find interesting and useful. We have also had a very busy week celebrating World NTD Day and World Leprosy Day – find out more on this in the Twitter section below.
VALIDATE Video – 'A Vaccine for Leprosy?'
As part of our activities marking World NTD Day and World Leprosy Day, VALIDATE Comms Coordinator Blakeley Nixon and VALIDATE Associate Dr Hua Wang produced a short YouTube video about Leprosy, aiming to raise awareness about this devastating disease in the general public. In the video Hua talks about leprosy and it's continued impact in the world today, how it can be tackled, and how VALIDATE is supporting research towards a vaccine. Do watch this great video below - and please share it as widely as possible with your colleagues and friends to help us raise awareness that leprosy is, sadly, still afflicting >200,000 people every year.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/1fzDWmAc2YY
Your own VALIDATE video?
Our Leprosy Video is open-access and it is our hope that it will be a helpful tool for outreach and public engagement work for all our members, so please feel free to use it. We plan to follow up this video with further explainers for leishmaniasis, melioidosis and tuberculosis. If this sounds like a project you would like to get involved with, get in in touch with the VALIDATE team (VALIDATE@ndm.ox.ac.uk).
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NIBSC PhD Studentships - Collaborative, multi-institutional 3-year PhD studentships offer an opportunity to develop knowledge and expertise in biological medicines - deadline 17 February 2021
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Translational Biomedical Research Award - The proposed research must have a justifiable claim to be at the leading edge of international science and must be led by a clearly identified Principal Applicant - deadline 18 February 2021
- Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowships - Offers recently qualified postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to start independent research careers, working in some of the best research environments in the world – 23 March 2021
- MRC Biomedical Catalyst: Developmental Pathway Funding Scheme (DPFS) outline - Supporting the pre-clinical development and early clinical testing of novel therapeutics, devices and diagnostics, including “re-purposing” of existing therapies – deadline 24 March 2021
- MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowships - Supports clinicians to undertake a PhD or other higher research degree – deadline 7 April 2021
- MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship (CSF) - For doctors, dentists, nurses, midwives, AHP (& some vets) to establish their own research group – deadline 7 April 2021
- Wellcome Research Enrichment: Diversity and Inclusion - For Wellcome grantholders to identify and tackle barriers to diversity and inclusion in their work - deadline 9 April 2021
Find all other funding opportunities on our external funding page.
Training Opportunities and Events
- Neglected Tropical Diseases NGO Network Conference 2020 videos, recorded September 2020, available now online
- Frontiers in comparative immunology series: T cell biology, Online, 18 March 2021
More opportunities are to be found on our Training and Events pages.
- NIBSC PhD Studentships, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, London UK, deadline 17 February 2021
- Bioinformatics Analyst LMS, MRC London Institute of Medical Science, UK, deadline 28 February 2021
There are many more relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.
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Human antibodies targeting a Mycobacterium transporter protein mediate protection against tuberculosis, Watson A et al, in Nature Communications
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Functional inactivation of pulmonary MAIT cells following 5-OP-RU treatment of non-human primates, Sakai S, pre-print in bioRxiv
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Human tuberculosis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex: A review on genetic diversity, pathogenesis and omics approaches in host biomarkers discovery, Kanabalan RD et al, In Microbiological Research
Check out our Publications Page for members' publications and email validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk if you have a paper you would like to add.
Highlights on Twitter this week:
We had a very busy week on Twitter engaging around World NTD Day and World Leprosy Day. For World NTD Day we tweeted 24 times throughout the day celebrating our members' amazing work towards eradicating NTDs, Japanese Pharmaceutical Company shared an article about the gradual progress being made in access to medicines in LMICS, Public Health Insight shared their latest podcast episode providing an introduction to NTDs, and the NTD Support Center shared a quote from Caroline Harper of Sightsavers about the importance of eliminating NTDs. The GHIT Fund shared a video affirming their commitment to the NTD Road Map 2030 and The Global Partnership for Zero Leprosy also tweeted about the importance of the WHO plan. Glasgow Microbiology shared our leprosy video, Epicentre MSF talked about their research on Leishmaniasis and other NTDs and TB News Daily shared details of a newly designed molecule that embeds into the Mtb cell wall and lights up helping with easy TB diagnosis. Immunologist and President of the Academy of Sciences Professor Dame Anne Johnson was interviewed on radio 4, and as Eddie Izzard dedicated her 30th marathon in 30 days to NTDs, Gates Foundation NTD Director Katey Owen helped her with how to pronouce the NTDs (including visceral leishmaniasis)! Follow @NetworkVALIDATE for all the latest news and for our #WorldNTDDay activity.
Published: 3 February 2021
