Weekly round-up #217

welcome new members

Welcome New VALIDATE Members

We are very pleased to welcome 14 new members to the growing VALIDATE Community. We are always happy to welcome new members, so please let your colleagues know about the benefits of membership and how to join.

Associates

Ms María García Bengoa is a VALIDATE Network Associate at the University of Hannover and LIONEX, Germany.

Affiliates

  • Dr Marcia Ashmi is based at the ICAR–Indian Veterinary Research Institute, India
  • Miss Alberta Ateere is based at the University of Oxford, UK
  • Ms Silvia Calvo García is based at the University of Zaragoza, Spain
  • Assoc Prof Joconiah Chirenda is based at the University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
  • Dr Deb Dutta is based at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), India
  • Dr Tim Fredsgaard-Jones is based at the University of Oxford, UK
  • Ms Claudia Guerrero Perales is based at the University of Zaragoza, Spain
  • Dr Meera Madhavan is based at the University of Oxford, UK
  • Dr Elton Rogozi is based at the Institute of Public Health, Albania
  • Dr Hiroyuki Saiga is based at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID), Japan
  • Ms Himani Tripathi is based at the Central University of Rajasthan (CURAJ), India
  • Mr Sujeet Singh is based at the Central University of Rajasthan, India
  • Mrs Lindsey Waddell is based at the Roslin Institute, UK

Seminar Today - A Vaccine for Melioidosis? - 13:00 BST

Today, Prof Mukhopadhyay and Dr 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 deaths a year. If you want to join the seminar, email Blakeley - blakeley.nixon@ndm.ox.ac.uk

Funding:

  • MCR Biomedical Catalyst 2022 - Supporting the pre-clinical development and early clinical testing of novel therapeutics, devices and diagnostics, including “re-purposing” of existing therapies - deadline: 25 May 2022
  • Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) - Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) accelerate business innovation by supporting knowledge exchange with academic institutions - deadline 15 June 2022
  • Innovate UK Smart Grants, 2022 -Opportunity for UK registered organisations to apply for a share of up to £25 million from Innovate UK to deliver disruptive R&D innovations that can significantly impact the UK economy - deadline 27 July 2022

You can find a list of all relevant external funding we've spotted for our members on our external funding page.​​​​ ​​


More relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.


 
 
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:

Gulf News reported on the need for childhood vaccinations (including BCG), we congratulated the new president of the BSI (VALIDATE member) Prof Tracey Hussell, and we promoted our upcoming “A Vaccine for Leprosy?” seminar. Nature Careers reported on the challenges women face when building science collaborations and shared a guide for coping when a PhD supervisor leaves. Nature reported on TB as the oldest pandemic in history, the rise of drug-resistant TB, and the methods to decode the biology of TB. VALIDATE member Siobhan McLean was presenting at the European Melioidosis Congress. Keep up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter.

Published: 18 May 2022