Weekly round-up #211

A Vaccine for Leishmaniasis?

Earlier today, 55 attendees, from 27 organisations in 21 countries attended the first event in VALIDATE's "A Vaccine for" seminar series, in which leading experts provide an overview of the state of vaccine research for VAIDATE’s focus pathogens. Prof Mitali Chatterjee and Dr Mohamed Osman provided an overview and update on the current state of research into vaccines for a disease that causes up to 40,000 deaths annually. Mitali and Mohamed also spoke to attendees in a very engaging Q&A session.

The video will be on YouTube soon.

The next Seminar - A Vaccine for Melioidosis? - 18 May 2022

The next seminar in the series will be "A Vaccine for Melioidosis?". Prof Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay and Dr Somasish Ghosh Dastidar

will discuss the prospects for a vaccine for Melioidosis, the disease caused by a bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei, which is found across tropical and semi-tropical regions worldwide and causes up to 89,000 death a year. All are welcome, but the seminar will be especially interesting to vaccine researchers who do not study melioidosis.

The event will take place at 13:00 am BST, 18 May 2022 and you can register on our website - www.validate-network.org/event/avf-melioidosis

Funding:

RSTMH Early Career Grants 2022 - To enable early career researchers and global health professionals in the field of tropical medicine or global health to undertake clinical or scientific research and/or fieldwork - deadline 29 April 2022
BBSRC Discovery Fellowships, 2022 - Fellowship to carry out independent research within a host laboratory and gain leadership skills - deadline 5 May 2022
Infections and Immunity New Investigator - The new investigator research grant is aimed at researchers who are capable of becoming independent principal investigators - deadline 11 May 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:

World Vaccine Congress 2022, Washington DC, USA, 18 - 22 April 2022
UK Cellular Microbiology Network: Exploring The Host-Pathogen Interface, University of Warwick, UK, 21-22 April 2022

Find more training and events opportunities on our Training and Events pages.

Job Opportunities:

Postdoctoral Training Fellow - Gutierrez lab, Francis Crick Institute, London, UK, 8 April 2022
Research Associate, Imperial College, London, UK, deadline 10 April 2022

Many more relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.

Publications:

A change in the timing of the Bacillus Calmette–Guérin vaccination in 2013 was associated with an increase in the incidence rate of infants with latent tuberculosis infection, Hino Y et al, in Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy
Memory B cell diversity: insights for optimized vaccine design, McGrath JC et al, in Trends in Immunology
It Takes a Village: The Multifaceted Immune Response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection and Vaccine-Induced Immunity, VALIDATE member Sasha Larsen Akins et al, 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:

Our sister network BactiVac opened their BactiVac Catalyst Funding for Pump-Priming Projects, we promoted today’s “A Vaccine for?” seminar, and Prof Gavin Yamey highlighted the difference between funding for COVID and TB. Write that PhD shared sample chapters on research fundamentals and research methods in health science. Nature Careers shared articles on the narrowing career paths to becoming researchers, how research centred on women is considered less worthy and how PhD students have embraced hybrid working during the pandemic.

Stay up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter.

Published: 6 April 2022