Weekly round-up #219

Happy 5th Birthday VALIDATE!

On 1 June 2017, VALIDATE was launched and today we are celebrating our 5th Birthday. Since then, we have had many successes, perhaps too many to talk about in one day.

On Twitter and Linkedin we highlighted 5 Successes of VALIDATE, which included the first trial of a melioidosis vaccine, awarding 34 Training Grants, 4 Fellowships, our Equipment Exchange scheme, and our community growing 17 fold in 5 years.

We ash that members engage with the Twitter thread and let us know about some of your own successes from the last 5 years!

Funding:

BBSRC Strategic Longer and Larger Grants: Frontier Bioscience 2022 to 2023 - Funding for frontier bioscience research that addresses significant fundamental questions in bioscience - Deadline 14 June 2022
Surveillance and diagnostics for antimicrobial resistance - This scheme provides funding for mid-career researchers from any discipline who have the potential to be international research leaders - deadline 14 June 2022
Wellcome Career Development Awards - This scheme provides funding for mid-career researchers from any discipline who have the potential to be international research leaders - deadline 21 July 2022
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 22 July 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:

Progress in Vaccine Development For Infectious Diseases, Beaver Run Resort, Colorado, United States, 1 - 4 June 2022
16th Vaccine Congress, Lake Garda, Italy, 12 - 14 September 2022

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

Job Opportunities:

Research Fellow in Host-Pathogen interactions, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK deadline 22 June 2022
Postdoctoral Training Fellow - Gutierrez lab, the Francis Crick Institute, London UK, deadline 28 June 2022
AVACTA PhD studentships (x11), Queen’s University Belfast, UK, deadline 1 July 2022

More relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.

Publications:

Pyrazinamide enhances persistence of T-cell memory induced by tuberculosis subunit vaccine LT70, Nu H et al, in Tuberculosis
CD4 T cells are rapidly depleted from tuberculosis granulomas following acute SIV co-infection, Taylor W. Foreman TW et al, in Cell Report
The intersecting pandemics of tuberculosis and COVID-19: population-level and patient-level impact, clinical presentation, and corrective interventions, Dheda K et al, in Lancet Respiratory Medicine

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:

There was an article from International Press Service on the need to shift focus from COVID to TB, The Union held its virtual conference, and the Indian government is studying the use of BCG as a COVID vaccine. England has launched a simplified BCG vaccine programme for Badgers (also reported here), Reuters reported the launch of the $18 billion Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and Vaccines Today Shared an Infographic about the WHO vaccine recommendations. Gizmodo reported on “Emerging diseases to keep you up at night” (including melioidosis), Front Pages Africa reported on the lack of BCG vaccine for babies, and a joint UK and Argentina led resolution to prepare for future pandemics was brought to the World Health Assembly. Marikina City in the Philippines launched a 12-day immunization program for babies, The Gates Foundation reported on newly discovered immune responses to TB and the Boston Children’s Hospital discussed the new potential of the old BCG vaccine. Keep up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter.

Published: 1 June 2022