Weekly round-up #174
With more new members to welcome to our network this week, VALIDATE is now a community of >450 members based across 225 institutes in 67 countries. A big welcome to our newest members:
- Dr Leonardo Martinez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Boston University, USA
- Mr Faizan Ahmad is an MPhil Scholar at Abbottabad University of Science & Technology, Pakistan
- Mr Elmeliani M’hammed is a PhD Student in Chemistry at the University of Oran, Algeria
- Drs Katya Islas Soria and Luis Roberto Tinajero Torres are Physicians at the Central Military Hospital, Mexico
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Syncona PhD Scholarship 2021-2025 - Syncona are offering one PhD scholarship available to students conducting their doctoral research within Life Sciences at an accredited UK university. The scholarships are aimed at those from a Black African, Black Caribbean or Mixed Black heritage – deadline 5 July 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 - deadline 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 – deadline 21 July 2021
- African Research Initiative for Scientific Excellence Pilot Programme - The programme is for African researchers who are African nationals with 2-7 years of research experience since completion of their PhD – deadline 30 July 2021
- TDR Postgraduate Training Scholarship - University of the Witwatersrand - The University of the Witwatersrand’s School of Public Health invites suitably qualified candidates to apply for a full-time funded Master Degree Programme in the field of Implementation Science – deadline 31 July 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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'LTBI testing in immunocompromised in a COVID endemic country', part of Oxford Immunotec's webinar series on TB and COVID, 1 July 2021
- 12th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, Online (from Bergan, Norway), 28 October -1 September 2021
- RSTMH Annual Meeting, Hybrid event (UK and virtual), 11 October 2021
- 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, Online, 19 October 2021
- 13th Latin American and Caribbean Congress of Immunology, Varadero, Cuba, 1 November 2021
- VIB Science Translational Immunology Conference, VIB Headquarters, Ghent, Belgium, 22 November 2021
Find more training and events opportunities on our Training and Events pages.
- Clinical Trials Resources Manager, Jenner Institute, University of Oxford UK, deadline 5 July 2021
- Syncona Internship, Syncona Ltd, London UK, deadline 5 July 2021
There are many more relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.
- Multicomponent Gold-Linked Glycoconjugate Vaccine Elicits Antigen-Specific Humoral and Mixed TH1-TH17 Immunity, Correlated with Increased Protection against Burkholderia pseudomallei - VALIDATE members Daniel Tapia, Javier Sanchez-Villamil and Alfredo Torres et al, in mBio
- The cellular architecture of the antimicrobial response network in human leprosy granulomas - F Ma et al, in Nature Immunology
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Structure of the mycobacterial ESX-5 type VII secretion system pore complex - KSH Beckham et al, in Science Advances
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:
We continued with our #BCG100Facts with infographics on how TB spreads, how it does not spread, how many people have TB, and how little is spent on vaccine TB research. We promoted our next VALIDATE Industry Seminar, and flagged Oxford Immunotec's TB educational resources, while Horizon Europe highlighted the need for vaccines in the fight against AMR. Nature Careers discussed conversations we should all have with collaborators and how to handle authorship disputes, and WriteThatPhD shared 38 rules to improve your scientific writing. Follow @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter for all this and more - and take part in BCG100 by using the hashtag #BCG100.
Published: 30 June 2021
