Weekly round-up #228

Welcome new VALIDATE Members

Our community continues to grow and today VALIDATE boasts 549 members from 261 institutes in 73 countries, 45 of which are Lower and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). You can check out the profiles of the latest members to join the ever-expanding VALIDATE gang below.

New Investigators

Dr Piyush Lal is an Assistant Professor at the Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka, India
Prof Gladys Granero is a Professor at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba – CONICET, Argentina
Dr Cris Vilaplana-Massaguer is Head of the Experimental Tuberculosis Unit, Fundació Institut Germans Trias I Pujol (IGTP), Spain

New Associates

Ludoviko Zirimenya is a Clinical Research Scientist at the MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, Uganda
Dr Rajkumar Singh is a Senior Post-doctoral researcher at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden

New Affiliate

Mr Alexandre Richard is an MSc student at the Jenner Institute, VALIDATE Affiliate, University of Oxford

Funding:

TWAS-CUI Postgraduate Fellowship Programme - For postgraduate research offers fellowships to young scientists from developing countries other than Pakistan, who wish to obtain all or part of their PhD in natural or social sciences - deadline 31 August 2022
Partner with researchers in Canada on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) - Apply for funding to establish new partnerships or develop pre-existing collaborations with researchers in Canada on a project relating to combating antimicrobial resistance (AMR) - deadline 6 September 2022
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships - Round 7 - £900 million fund that is helping to establish the careers of world-class research and innovation leaders across UK business and academia - deadline 6 September 2022
MRC Molecular and cellular medicine research - The MRC’s Molecular and Cellular Medicine Board funds research into basic biological mechanisms or technologies relevant to human health and disease - deadline 6 September 2022
TWAS-DBT Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme - The Ministry of Science and Technology, India, and TWAS have established a fellowship programme for foreign scholars from developing countries who wish to pursue postdoctoral research in biotechnology - deadline 15 September 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:

NIH Grant Writing Webinars – Online Webinars

Webinar 1: Before Writing: Faculty Readiness and Submission Considerations – 16 August 2022
Webinar 3: Writing a Competitive Application - 1 November 2022
Webinar 2: Determining Whether a Funding Opportunity is Right for You – 26 September 2022

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

Job Opportunities:

MSc Course Director (Immunology), University of Oxford, UK, deadline 8 August 2022
Head of the human challenge trial unit, University of Antwerp, Belgium, deadline 11 August 2022
Post-Doctoral Researcher in Immunology, University of Oxford, UK, deadline 11 August 2022

More relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.

Publications:

Mycobacterium tuberculosis/Mycobacterium bovis triggered different variations in lipid composition of Bovine Alveolar Macrophages, Chen Y et al, in Nature Scientific Reports
Controlled Human Infection Models To Accelerate Vaccine Development, Choy RKM et al, in ASM Clinical Microbiology

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 has been a lot of discussion about the discovery of Melioidosis in US Gulf states from Prof Alfredo G Torres, Helen Branswell, Livescience, Health.com, and local media. Nature Careers had some advice for using games to teach difficult concepts, sponsored registration for the Union’s conference closes soon, and BioNTec has begun its ambitious vaccine manufacturing programme in Africa. History extra discussed Leprosy Through the Ages, Nature reported that U faculty members support open access journals, Stop TB Canada was at #AIDS2022 calling for an End to TB, and the BSI had some tips for immunologists who want to engage the public. Keep up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter.

Published: 3 August 2022