Weekly round-up #199
As we are still early in the new year, we thought we would remind our members about the support and resources VALIDATE offer:
Resources -
- Career Resources - VALIDATE is here to help with your career. Here you will find details of resources and advice that you will find useful for your Career and Professional Development.
- Outreach Guide - The VALIDATE Outreach Guide is written by VALIDATE members and some of our external partners. The guide contains case studies, advice and resources that will help you engage the public with your important research.
- Shared SOPs - VALIDATE members can access our Standard Operating Procedures via the VALIDATE Hub by clicking the relevant link below.
- Data Sets - At VALIDATE we are keen to promote open data sharing, to accelerate the development of vaccines against tuberculosis, leishmaniasis, melioidosis and leprosy. To this end we have listed the available data sets from VALIDATE projects, and other published data sets of potential interest to members, in the below listing
Finding Members
- VALIDATE Network Members Directory - VALIDATE is a network of over 450 vaccine researchers in hundreds of institutions and organisations worldwide. Use this directory to search through our members and perhaps form your next collaboration.
- Collaborating Institutes - VALIDATE members can be found in hundreds of institutions around the world. Use this map to explore the world and fellow VALIDATE members in your organisation or local area.
Get in touch if you have any thoughts about resources you would like us to provide throughout 2022!
- BBSRC Researching zoonotic pathogen emergence, detection and protection - Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) accelerate business innovation by supporting knowledge exchange with academic institutions - deadline 2 February 2022
- Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) - Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) accelerate business innovation by supporting knowledge exchange with academic institutions - deadline 2 February 2022
- MRC Infections and Immunity Programme - Apply for funding for research projects focused on infections and immunity.- deadline different for each institution
- NRF DAAD Scholarship and Fellowships - The National Research Foundation (NRF) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) award MA and PhD scholarships to South African citizens and permanent South African residents for postgraduate studies at public South African universities - deadline 30 June 2022
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:
Find more training and events opportunities on our Training and Events pages.
- 2nd International Congress of Micro-Immunotherapy, Mallorca, Spain, 2 - 4 June, 2022
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13th Latin American and Caribbean Congress of Immunology, Varadero, Cuba, 6 - 10 June 2022
- Head of Theme for Data Science, MRC, London, UK, deadline 30 January 2022
- Associate Professor or Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology x 2, LSHTM., London UK, deadline 31 January 2022
- IAVI Bioinformatician, IAVI, Nairobi, Kenya, deadline 31 January 2022
- IAVI Sr Program Manager, IAVI, Nairobi, Kenya, deadline 31 January 2022
There are many more relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.
- A call to action: time to recognise melioidosis as a neglected tropical disease, Savelkoel J et al, in The Lancet Infectious Disease
- Immunogenic profiling of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DosR protein Rv0569 reveals its ability to switch on Th1 based immunity, Kala Jyothi Kanaparthi KJ et al, Immunology Letters
- A Phase 1/2 Single-arm Clinical Trial of Recombinant Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) VPM1002BC Immunotherapy in Non–muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer Recurrence After Conventional BCG Therapy: SAKK 06/14, Rentsch CA et al, European Urology 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:
The MRC published a list of eight checks to do before you submit a grant proposal, WritethatPhD had some advice for how to develop a research proposal and self evaluate, and we share the WHO’s message for World Leprosy Day. Nature careers had some advice for gathering feedback data, the COVID advocate advisory board shared some lessons about improving vaccine uptake, and Dr Alfredo Torres shared a call to action to get Melioidosis declared a neglected disease. The US CDC shared an article on specific TB populations, the New England Journal of Medicine discussed the short and long term solutions to fighting TB, and the BSI have launched their first open-access journal. Stay up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter.
Published: 12 January 2022
