Weekly round-up #164
VALIDATE Industry Seminar: Addressing Pathogen and Human Diversity
Our next seminar with VALIDATE’s Industry Partners will be with Graham Clarke, Chair of immBio, a company developing next-generation vaccines against serious infectious disease. Graham will talk about how variable human immune responses highlights the need in vaccinology to identify and develop technologies that are able to address diversity as well as immBio’s focus on a multiple-protein approach. This seminar is open to all, so please share details with any colleagues who might be interested.
The event will take place on Wednesday, 27 April 2021 at 14:00 BST and you can register online
VALIDATE website update - New Members Start Here.
We have been making updates to the VALIDATE website and now have a page where new members can more easily start their VALIDATE journey. The "Start Here" page has details of the resources and information available to members and existing members should also check out the page as VALIDATE has significantly expanded the resources we offer over the years - www.validate-network.org/new-members
- MRC Develop guidance for better research methods - This funding opportunity is open to researchers at eligible organisations including higher education institutions, approved independent research organisations and NHS bodies, and MRC institutes - deadline 17 June 2021
- Wellcome Trust - Clinical Research Career Development Fellowships - This scheme enables clinically active healthcare professionals to continue their research at postdoctoral level and develop scientific independence – 6 July 2021
- MRC Biomedical Catalyst: Developmental Pathway Funding Scheme - Supporting the pre-clinical development and early clinical testing of novel therapeutics, devices and diagnostics, including “re-purposing” of existing therapies – 21 July 2021
- BactiVac Catalyst Training Awards - Funding is available to support training opportunities and exchanges, prioritising those involving LMIC members and academic/industrial partners, for the transfer of knowledge and skills in bacterial vaccinology – 31 August 2021
You can find all other funding opportunities on our external funding page.
Training Opportunities and Events:
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EDCTP - Accelerating TB vaccine research and development: Launch of a Global Roadmap, watch now on youtube
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BactiVac Conference 2021: Bacterial vaccines in a time of pandemic, Online Conference, 27-28 April 2021
- Advanced TB Diagnostics, Online Course, 7 June 2021
- Seventh International Conference on Mycobacterium bovis, Galway, Ireland, 7 - 10 June 2021
- BSP Parasites Online 2021, Online Conference, 12-25 June 2021
- 6th European Congress of Immunology (ECI) - The 5-track program will streamline symposia, workshops as well as guided poster sessions, Belgrade, Serbia, 1 September 2021
More opportunities can be found on our Training and Events pages.
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VetHub1 Technician, University of Aberystwyth, UK, deadline 28 April 2021
There are many more relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.
- Tissue resident-like CD4+ T cells secreting IL-17 control Mycobacteria tuberculosis in the human lung, Ogongo P et al, in Journal of Clinical Investigation
- Validation of a host blood transcriptomic biomarker for pulmonary tuberculosis in people living with HIV: a prospective diagnostic and prognostic accuracy study, Mendelsohn SC et al, in The Lancet Global Health
- Safety and immunogenicity of ChAd63-KH vaccine in post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis patients in Sudan, Younis BM et al, in Cell Press
- Phase I Trial Evaluating the Safety and Immunogenicity of Candidate TB Vaccine MVA85A, Delivered by Aerosol to Healthy M.tb-Infected Adults, Riste M et al, in Vaccines
- Urinary metabolomic analysis to identify potential markers for the diagnosis of tuberculosis and latent tuberculosis, Deng J et al, in Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
- FasL regulatory B-cells during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and TB disease, Loxton AG and van Rensburg IC, in the Journal of Molecular Biology
Check out our Publications Page for members' publications and email VALIDATE@ndm.ox.ac.uk if you have a paper you would like us to include.
Highlights on Twitter this week:
Our hosts a the Jenner Institute shared the BSI’s infographic on how vaccine works and the UN Food and Agriculture Agency held an animal disease update. Write That PhD had some advice for framing a research storyline, delivering oral presentations, and writing research design sections. The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, the Africa CDC, and the African Union Commission formed a partnership to enhance vaccine research. The Stop TB Partnership tweeted a thread introducing the Global TB Vaccine Roadmap, in the USA it is Medical Laboratory Professionals Week and we continued our #BCG100Facts with a quote from John Bunyan.
Following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter is the best way to keep up to date. You can also take part in BCG100 by using the hashtag #BG100.
Published: 21 April 2021
