Weekly round-up #192
Welcome new members!
VALIDATE continues to grow and we are happy to welcome 7 new members from 4 countries.
New Network Affiliates
- Ms Lucy Denly is a DPhil Candidate at The Jenner Institute, Oxford University, UK
- Miss Orawan Tulyaprawat is a Scientist at the Department of Microbiology, Mahidol University,Thailand
- Mr Marcellus Korompis is a DPhil Candidate at The Jenner Institute, Oxford University, UK
- Ms Isabel Neale is a student at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University, UK
New Network Associates
- Dr Thao-Thy Pham is Post-doctoral Researcher a at the Belgian Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium
- Dr Anele Gela is a Post-doctoral Researcher at the University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Dr Cristian Segura-Cerda is a Postdoctoral Researcher at CIATEJ in Mexico
Reminder: Spread the word about BCG Adventures
BCG Adventures launched last week and we had a positive response on Facebook and Twitter. We still need our members' help getting the word out about these fun and educational games! We have plenty of materials in our Promotion Pack which has everything you need to engage a wide audience.
- MRC Clinical research training fellowship - Apply for funding to undertake a PhD or to reacquire research skills. Your research can focus on any area of MRC’s remit to improve human health - deadline 12 January 2022
- NIH Mechanisms of Mycobacterial-Induced Immunity in HIV-Infected and/or Uninfected Individuals to Inform Innovative Tuberculosis Vaccine Design, 2022 - To support innovative sutdies to identify and understad the immune responses that mediate protection from Mtb infection or progression to active TB disease - deadline 14 January 2022
- Identification and Characterization of Persistence Mechanisms of Select Protozoan Pathogens - Funding to expand our understanding of protozoan parasite persistence mechanisms and provide research tools and strategies to enable identification and credentialing of novel treatments for persistent protozoan pathogens - deadline 22 Febraury 2022
Training Opportunities and Events:
- BCG Symposium, Institut Pasteur de Lille, France, 17 November 2021
- Cattle TB Vaccine Project Leader, Animal and Plant Health Agency, Weybridge UK, deadline 14 November 2021
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Scientist -TB Vaccine Evaluation Group, Health Security Agency, Porton Dow, UK, deadline 22 November 2021
There are many more relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.
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ChimLeish, a new recombinant chimeric protein evaluated as a diagnostic and prognostic marker for visceral leishmaniasis and human immunodeficiency virus coinfection Galvani NC et al including VALIDATE Members Myron Christodoulides, and Eduardo Coelho, in Parasitol Res.
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Potential of recombinant LiHyQ, a novel Leishmania infantum protein, for the diagnosis of canine visceral leishmaniasis and as a diagnostic and prognostic marker for human leishmaniasis and human immunodeficiency virus co-infection: A preliminary study. Santos TTO et al including VALIDATE Member Myron Christodoulides, in Actatropica
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Critical shortage in BCG immunotherapy: How did we get here and where will it take us?, Harvey M et al, in Urologic Oncology
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 spend the week promoting the two BCG Adventures games – The Little Lille adventure and Vaccine Delivery Adventure. The games were also shared by the Lydia Becker Institute, Genetics Unzipped, IVVN, and BactiVac. The Stop TB Partnership reported on the commitment SE Asian health ministers have made to tackle TB,the BSI released a report showcasing the benefits of involving the public in immunology research and Write that PhD had some tips for abstract writing. Nature Careers had some advice for keeping webinars interesting, making research reproducible, and released the latest interview on the topic of mentoring. Stay up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter.
Published: 10 November 2021
