A Vaccine for Leprosy?
Yesterday VALIDATE held the third in its successful "A Vaccine for...?" seminar series. 40 people, including VALIDATE members and guests, gathered on Zoom to hear Dr Khushboo Borah provide a background about Leprosy, the disease caused by Mycobacteria Leprae of which there are still over 200,000 new cases diagnosed every year. Dr Chyntia Carolina Díaz Acosta then explored mechanisms of Schwann cells modulation by M. leprae with emphasis on host lipid metabolism.
These seminars provided were aimed at vaccine researchers who do not study the pathogen and were part of VALIDATE's commitment to fostering an exchange of ideas and cross-pathogen collaboration.
You can watch a "Vaccine for Leishmaniasis?" right now and we will upload the seminars on Melioidosis and Leprosy on the VALIDATE YouTube Channel soon.
Funding:
- 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
- Wellcome Discovery Awards - This scheme 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 26 July 2022
- Innovate UK Smart Grants - 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
- MRC Applied global health research - Funding to support research that will benefit the health of vulnerable global populations - Deadline 28 July 2022
- The British Academy: Researchers at Risk Fellowships – Funding establishing a Researchers at Risk Fellowships Programme with the support of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society - deadline 29 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:
- WorldLeish7 - Leishmaniasis and conflict, Cartagena, Colombia, 1 - 6 August 2022
- 16th Vaccine Congress, Lake Garda, Italy 12 - 14 September 2022
- Molecular Parasitology Meeting XXXIII, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
- Immune surveillance in the ageing microenvironment, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 3 October 2022
Find more training and events opportunities on our Training and Events pages.
Job Opportunities:
- Boston University: Postdoctoral Position for Immunity to TB Research, University of Boston, No stated deadline.
- Immunology and Host-pathogen Defense, University of Massachusetts, Boston USA, deadline 5 July 2022
- Director, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD, USA, No stated deadline
- Faculty Position in Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunity, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States, No stated deadline
More relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.
- TB-Molecular Bacterial Load Assay reveals early delayed bacterial killing in relapse patients, Ntinginya NE et al, in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Safety and immunogenicity of VPM1002 versus BCG in South African newborn babies: a randomised, phase 2 non-inferiority double-blind controlled trial, Cotton MF et al, in The Lancet Infectious Diseases
- Doxycycline treatment of Mansonella perstans infected individuals affects immune cell activation and causes long-term T-cell polarization, VALIDATE Members Wilfred Aniagyei, Jonathan Adjei, Ernest Adankwah, including Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Plasmodium falciparum coinfection is associated with improved IgE and IgG3 response against hookworm antigens, Samuel A Sakyi et al, including VALIDATE member Wilfred Aniagyei, in Health Science Reports
- Assessing the role of eosinophil‐mediated immune response markers in detecting hookworm infection: A case‐control study in Kintampo, Ghana, Sakyi SA et al (including VALIDATE member Wilfred Aniagyei), in Health Science Reports
- Cytokine‐induced transient monocyte IL‐7Ra expression and the serum milieu in tuberculosis Harelimana JD et al (including VALIDATE members Wilfred Aniagyei, Ernest Adankwah, Millicent Naa Koshie Lamptey), in European Journal of Immunology
- Plasma cytokine levels characterize disease pathogenesis and treatment response in tuberculosis patients, Monika M Vivekanandan M et al (including VALIDATE members, Wilfred Aniagyei, Ernest Adankwah, Monika M. Vivekanandan, Millicent Naa Koshie Lamptey, Isaac Acheampong), in Infection
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.
Published: 29 June 2022
