Weekly round-up #181
VALIDATE Receives Gates Foundation Funding
This week we announced that the VALIDATE Network procured funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The $1.5M funding will allow us to continue our activities focusing on Tuberculosis through to 2023. Find out more on the news announcement or download the full press release.
Reminder - VALIDATE Annual Meeting 2021 - Register today!
Registration for our annual meeting is still open taking place across three days in September, Oxtober and November. - www.validate-network.org/annual-meeting-2021
- ERC Advanced Grants - To support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are already established research leaders with a recognised track record of research achievements. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition – 31 August 2021
- MRC Senior Non-Clinical Fellowship (SNCF) - Up to 5 years' support for PIs in a challenging research programme – 15 September 2021
- Global Learning Scholarship Program - Providing opportunities for scientists and researchers from LMICs to access the latest ideas, science, technology and partnerships to make a positive impact on fighting global disease – 21 September 2021
- Global Learning Scholarship Program - Providing opportunities for scientists and researchers from LMICs to access the latest ideas, science, technology and partnerships to make a positive impact on fighting global disease – 21 September 2021
- BBSRC Standard Research Grant - Projects can range in size up to £2 million and last up to five years – 21 September 2021
Training Opportunities and Events:
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British Society for Immunology Congress, United Kingdom, 28 November 2021
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ALIVE 2022, Meliá Costa del Sol, Málaga, Spain, 31 March 2022
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2nd International Congress of Micro-Immunotherapy, Mallorca, Spain, 2 June 2022 - 4 June, 2022
Find more training and events opportunities on our Training and Events pages.
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Director of the Tuberculosis Department, The Union, 30 September 2021
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Postdoctoral Positions in Virology and Immunology, Cleveland Clinic, OH, United States, 30 September 2021
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Chief, Basic Immunology Branch, NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Bethesda, MD, United States, 30 October 2021
There are many more relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.
- A BCG success story: From prevention of tuberculosis to optimal bladder cancer treatment, Lamma DL and Alvaro Morales, in Vaccine
- Preclinical validation of a live attenuated dermotropic Leishmania vaccine against vector transmitted fatal visceral leishmaniasis, Karmakar S et al, in Communications Biology
- Hijacking of the Host’s Immune Surveillance Radars by Burkholderia pseudomallei, Mariappan V, in Frontiers in Immunology
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:
VALIDATE Network Director Sam Sampson spoke at Stellenbosch’s “The Woman Behind the Science” talk series and the ALAM 2021 event promoted our involvement. We announced our obtaining $1.5 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and we received congratulations from Bactivac, Prof Katie Ewer, member Nkemngo Francis Nongley, the Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics and it was reported by Health Europa. Plos had some advice for organizing a bioinformatics training course in LMICs, Write that PhD shared a chapter from Quantitative Research Methods, and Nature Careers share an article about Science Diplomacy. Follow @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter for all this and more - and take part in BCG100 by using the hashtag #BCG100.
Published: 25 August 2021
