Weekly round-up #166
BCG100 for Schools - Pathways to becoming wildlife researchers - SPREAD THE WORD
Next week, on Tuesday 11 May 2021, at 10am BST/11am SAST, VALIDATE members Prof Michele Miller and Dr Wynand Goosen will be talking to school students about the paths each took to follow their passion and become wildlife researchers.
This is an exciting opportunity for school students to engage with two excellent career researchers and we ask that VALIDATE members please share details of the registration page with young people or educators who might want to get involved - www.validate-network.org/bcg100-schools
- Wellcome 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 (DPFS) outline - 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 (open call) - 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
- Rosetrees Trust Seedcorn Awards, 2021 - The Rosetrees Trust Seedcorn Awards are aimed at enabling researchers to advance innovative and novel ideas related to prevention, diagnosis and/or treatment of human diseases - 31 August 2021
This is only a small selection of the external funding we have listed and you can find more on our external funding page.
Training Opportunities and Events:
- 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health: Lung Health For All: Solutions for a New Era, Online, 19-22 October 2021
More opportunities can be found on our Training and Events pages.
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Bioinformatician - Postdoctoral Training Fellow, The Francis Crick Institute, Midland Road, London UK, deadline 14 May 2021
There are many more relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.
- Particle dynamics and bioaerosol viability of aerosolized BCG vaccine using jet and vibrating mesh clinical nebulizers, Redmann RK et al, in bioRxiv
- Effects of BCG vaccination on donor unrestricted T cells in humans, Gela A, in bioRxiv
- Evaluation of qPCR on blood and skin microbiopsies, peripheral blood buffy coat smear, and urine antigen ELISA for diagnosis and test of cure for visceral leishmaniasis in HIV-coinfected patients in India: a prospective cohort study, Owen S et al, in BMJ Open
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:
The Royal Society continued to argue against the UK government’s cuts to NTD Programmes and we continued our #BCG100Facts with infographics about ”Vampires” in new England and Dracula! The Union have extended the submission deadline for the 52nd World Conference, and the British Society for Immunology shared an excellent infographic “What’s in a Vaccine?”. Nature Careers shared their webcast episodes on mental health in the pandemic and peer review, provided some advice on work-life balance, and shared an article on how South Korea and Japan maintained research ties despite political tensions. Write that PhD had some advice for publishing in peer review journals and editing your own academic writing. NRF South Africa shared an article in Science Matters about TB relapse and the BBC produced an excellent video on the eradication of smallpox.
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: 5 May 2021
