Weekly round-up #172
TB and the Use of BCG in Animals: Does it matter to people? – Watch it today!
On the evening of Wednesday 9 June 2021, 78 people from at least 22 countries gathered on MS Teams to hear Prof Glyn Hewinson and Prof Michele Miller talk about why effective vaccine programmes for animals are essential to humans' health and well-being. Despite losing Prof Miller towards the end of her presentation to a power outage, we heard two excellent speakers and had an engaging discussion in the Q&A. Once power was restored, Michele kindly recorded the missing few minutes of her talk and you can watch the whole event now on YouTube.
This is a public event, so please feel free to share the video with colleagues and on social media.
BBSRC Survey on Veterinary Vaccinology
VALIDATE members should take part in a new survey that will consult the research community on current veterinary vaccinology research and innovation needs, as well as the future perspectives. Find out more and take part online.
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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 – deadline6 June 2021
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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 21 July 2021
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Multimodal Research Across Scales To Understand Human Disease - Apply for funding to support the development of a new research collaboration to expand understanding of human disease – deadline 6 August 2021
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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
You can find a list of all relevant external funding we've spotted for our members on our external funding page.
Training Opportunities and Events:
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Mobilising action and finance towards global vaccination, Panel Discussion from ODI, watch now on YouTube
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Meliodosis Subunit Vaccines: Recent Future Developments, Online Webinar from Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, 21 June 2021
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Moulding leishmanial diversity – time and source of infection, Online Webinar from Pre-WorldLeish Webinar, 7 July 2021 11:00 BRT
Find more training and events opportunities on our Training and Events pages.
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Director of Policy, Ethics and Governance, MRC Operations and Governance Directorate, UK, deadline 27 June 2021
There are many more relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.
- High-dose Mycobacterium tuberculosis aerosol challenge cannot overcome BCG-induced protection in Chinese origin cynomolgus macaques; implications of natural resistance for vaccine evaluation, VALIDATE Member Laura Sibley et al including members Rachel Tanner and Helen McShane, in Scientific Reports
- Vaccination with BCGΔBCG1419c protects against pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB and is safer than BCG, Michel de Jesús et al including VALIDATE member Mario Alberto Flores-Valdez, in Scientific Reports
- The puzzle of the evolutionary natural history of tuberculosis, Fellag M et al, in New Microbes and New Infections
- Assessing public perception of a sand fly biting study on the pathway to a controlled human infection model for cutaneous leishmaniasis,
Parkash V et al including VALIDATE member Paul Kaye, in Research Involvement and Engagement
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:
TB News Daily shared an article about a Harvard study on why some people have latent TB and others get sick, Dr Nigel Curtis celebrated the life of Camille Guérin, and the Global T Cell Expert Consortium shared their extensive library of educational materials. The deadline for submission to the EDTCP Forum has been extended to 28 June, we congratulated VALIDATE SAB member Prof Tom Solomon for being awarded a CBE, and Write that PHD had some excellent advice on writing proposals, manuscripts and science writing. Nature Careers shared some helpful information on Tech Transfer Entrepreneurs and a Cartoon Guide to Bioinformatics.
Follow @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter and part in BCG100 by using the hashtag #BCG100.
Published: 16 June 2021
