Weekly round-up #156

Welcome to VALIDATE Weekly Round-up #156. We are very pleased to welcome our newest members:

VALIDATE Investigators:

• Dr Jerome Nyhalah Dinga - Lecturer at the Biochemistry University of Buea Cameroon
• Associate Professor Charles Gauthier - from the Institut National de Ia Recherche Scientifique, Quebec, Canada
• Associate Professor Tanya Dimova - based at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
• Professor Daniel Freeman - Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford, UK

VALIDATE Associates:

• Dr Chyntia Díaz Acosta - Biochemist at the National University of Asuncion (IICS-UNA) in Paraguay

VALIDATE Affiliates:

• Dr Ingrid Cabrera Puig - TB Vaccine Project Manager at the University of Oxford, UK
• Miss Sumaya Mohayideen - Research Assistant at the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research, Ghana
• Nisha Makan - Medical doctor at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
• David Smith - Moredun Fellow at the Moredun Research Institute, UK
• Wan Chen - PhD Student at the Moredun Research Institute, UK

If you find these profiles interesting and would like to start a conversation with one of our new (or existing) members, why not use the “@” feature in The VALIDATE Hub Collaboration Channel to get in touch.

Update your profile

We encourage all of our members to check on their VALIDATE profile from time to time and let us know what needs to be updated or if you have anything to add. You can find your profile on the VALIDATE Network Members page and update us via email - validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk.

Reminder -  Workshops!

We mentioned last week that we have the Grant Writing Workshop -taking place 13:00 GMT today. If you have yet to register, email validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk.and the team will see what they can do. 

There is still plenty of time to register for the Research Project & Grant Management for Researchers on 17 March 2021.

• Using an effective TB vaccination regimen to identify immune responses associated with protection in the murine model, VALIDATE Members Nawamin Pinpathomrat, Elena Stylianou and VALIDATE Network Director Helen McShane et al, in Vaccine

• BCG-induced non-specific effects on heterologous infectious disease in Ugandan neonates: an investigator-blind randomised controlled trial, Prentice S et al
  including VALIDATE Members, Hazel M Dockrell, Beatrice Nassanga, and Alison M Elliott, in The Lancet Infectious Diseases

• Chaperone-mediated stress sensing in Mycobacterium tuberculosis enables fast activation and sustained response, Satyajit D.et al, in the mSystems

• The immunity of the recombinant prokaryotic and eukaryotic subunit vaccines against cutaneous leishmaniasis, Salari S, in Microbial Pathogenesis

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.

Published: 24 February 2021