Weekly round-up #200
We made it to 200 issues of the VALIDATE Weekly Round-up. Take a trip down memory lane and have a look through our archive of Weekly round-ups.
World Days 2022
Throughout the year, VALIDATE marks world campaign days (and weeks) relevant to the important work we do research vaccines for Tuberculosis, Leishmaniasis, Melioidosis, and Leprosy.
Some highlights to pop in your calendar for 2022:
- World NTD Day and World Leprosy Day - 30 January: World Leprosy Day is celebrated on the last Sunday of January. It is an opportunity to celebrate people who have experienced leprosy, raise awareness of the disease, and call for an end to leprosy-related stigma and discrimination.
- International Day of Women and Girls in Science - 11 February: The Day focuses on the reality that science and gender equality are both vital for the achievement of internationally agreed development goals.
- World TB Day - 24 March: World TB Day is designed to build public awareness that tuberculosis today remains an epidemic in much of the world, causing the deaths of nearly one-and-a-half million people each year, mostly in LMICs.
- World Health Day - 7 April 2022: It is celebrated annually and each year draws attention to a specific health topic of concern to people all over the world. The date marks the anniversary of the founding of WHO in 1948.
- World Immunization Week - 24 to 30 April: World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, aims to highlight the collective action needed and to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease.
If you think VALIDATE should be in any global or local theme days or campaigns, get in touch and let us know the details - validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk.
- Wellcome Discovery Awards - Provides funding for established researchers and teams from any discipline who want to pursue bold and creative research ideas to deliver significant shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health and wellbeing – deadline 24 March
- Wellcome Discovery Awards - Provides funding for established researchers and teams from any discipline who want to pursue bold and creative research ideas to deliver significant shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health and wellbeing – deadline 24 March 2022
- TWAS Awards - The World Academy of Scinecs provides nine awards to individual scientists who have been working and living in a developing country for at least 10 years. The cycle of the TWAS Awards is now every - deadline 30 March 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.
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Colour Within the Lines, online, Dr Ane Ogbe, University of Oxford, 13:30, 2 February 2022
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UK Cellular Microbiology Network: Exploring The Host-Pathogen Interface, University of Warwick, UK, 21-22 April 2022
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European Melioidosis Congress 2022, Graz, Austria, 16 -18 May 2022
- Head of Theme for Data Science, MRC, London, UK, deadline 30 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.
- After 100 Years of BCG Immunization against Tuberculosis, What Is New and Still Outstanding for This Vaccine, Alberto Flores-Valdez M et al, in Vaccine
- Novel Areca Nut extract mediated preparation of TiO2 nanoparticles and its catalytic synthesis of 3, 3′- (phenyl methylene) bis-(4-hydroxy-2H-chromen-2-one) derivatives, Kumar A G C et al, in Chemical Data Collections
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:
Theo Sanderson shared a fascinating animated graph of COVID antibody numbers in England, Virendra Sharma MP spoke at a debate in the UK parliament on global vaccine access, and WriteThatPhD had some advice for writing a materials and methods section. We launched the final video game of our BCG Adventures series on Steam, the President of Pakistan spoke about the importance of civil society at the End TB Summit 2022 and Dr Tereza Kasaeva from the WHO spoke of the importance of focusing on the TB pandemic alongside COVID. The Stop TB Partnership proudly shared their electronic billboard in Times Square and announced their theme for World TB Day 2022 – “#InvesttoEndTB”. We reminded people of the benefits of VALIDATE membership. Stay up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter.
Published: 19 January 2022
