Weekly round-up #22

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

Apologies for missing a round-up last week due to my being ill - but that means we have a bumper update full of useful info this week!

Excitingly, VALIDATE has reached a big milestone this fortnight - we now have 100 members in our network! And, rather nicely with International Women In Science day last Sunday, we're doing our part for gender equality with membership currently at 50 women and 52 men. As planned, we're linking up a wide range of disciplines and countries, with researchers from 22 countries covering topics including immunology, human clinical trials, animal models, veterinary science, social science, bioinformatics, mathematical modelling, and epidemiology. We're confident that this breadth of knowledge and experience is going to lead to great advances for vaccine development for our focus pathogens. And, of course, we're always happy to welcome new members who can help us in this mission, so do tell your collaborators about us and encourage them to join.

This fortnight we've welcomed four new Investigators - Prof Mark Chambers (University of Surrey, UK), Assoc Prof Sheila Keating (University of California San Francisco, USA), Asst Prof Apichai Tuanyok (University of Florida, USA), and Prof Alfredo Torres (University of Texas Medical Branch, USA) - as well as two new Affiliates: Judy Weleminsky (UCL, UK) and Juliane Chaccour (Manhica Health Research Centre, Mozambique). Welcome to VALIDATE!

Over the fortnight there have been a lot of grant calls and events to notify you about...

Funding:

AMS: Starter grants for Clinical Lecturers - research consumables costs for research-active UK clinical lecturers (medical, dental or veterinary) - 16 Mar
RSTMH: 2018 Small Grants Round - small grants for travel/consumables/field expenses/equipment - 2 Apr
BBSRC-NRF: Newton-Utafiti call in inhancing ruminant livestock productivity - for UK-Kenya collaborations focusing on tackling challenges relevant to ruminant livestock production in Kenya - 10 Apr
BBSRC-FAPESP: UK-Brazil collaborative projects (must be within BBSRC remit) - 24 Apr
BBSRC: Industrial Partnership Awards - to support collaboration between academic research groups and industry within BBSRC remit - 24 Apr
BBSRC: Link Projects - collaborative research projects between at least one company and one academic partner, within BBSRC remit - 24 Apr
BBSRC: New Investigator Scheme - for University Lecturers/Lecturer level equivalent fellows to gain first major research funding (within BBSRC remit) - 24 Apr
BBSRC: Responsive Mode Scheme - you can submit research grant applications at any time for consideration by one of the Committees under their response mode scheme, on any topic within their portfolio
RSTMH: Robert Cochrane Fund for Leprosy - travel award to obtain/provide practical training in fieldwork or research into leprosy - 4 May
BBSRC: David Phillips Fellowship (DPF) - for post-docs wishing to establish their first independent research group; open to all nationalities, to work in the UK; research within BBSRC remit
BBSRC: Discovery Fellowships - for post-docs wishing to undertake independent research and gain leadership skills; open to all nationalities, to work in the UK; research within BBSRC remit
BBSRC: International Travel Award Scheme - to help scientists with BBSRC funding to establish new contacts - ongoing

Events:

18th International Congress on Infectious Diseases - 1 Mar 2018
Society for Applied Microbiology's Early Career Scientists Annual Forum - focus on Epidemiology and Infection Control - 28 Mar 2018
Acid Fast Club summer meeting - 5 Jul 2018
RSTMH annual meeting - 19 Sep 2018

Jobs:

Research Associate - TB; UCL, UK (closes 22 Feb)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Molecular Epidemiology of Tuberculosis; Columbia University Medical Center, USA (ongoing)

And, of course, training opportunities we spot are listed on our training page.

This fortnight's papers of interest are:

Meanwhile, we've spotted lots of interesting info on Twitter (@NetworkVALIDATE), including an article about the logistical challenges of getting vaccines to those who most need them and using solar powered fridges in South Sudan; the news that Inovio and The Wistar Institute have received $4.6 Million from Gates and NIH to advance two novel SynCon® vaccine programs against TB and malaria; a new study showing that vaccines help keep millions of families from falling into poverty; a video busting 7 leprosy myths; presentation tips from the Academy of Medical Sciences; a rather useful detailed list of post-doc funding schemes; and much more. Visit @NetworkVALIDATE to keep up to date on all the news in our field.

Don't forget that our 2018 Fellowship call is now open - more details here - and today is the last day to get your training grant application into this round (there will be further training grant rounds later in the year).

Published: 14 February 2018