Weekly round-up #23
Weekly round-up #23
It's been a busy week for grant calls, so let's jump straight in to finding you all more funding for your research, and for setting up new collaborations with other VALIDATE members!
- ASTMH/ACMCIP: Exchange Fellowship - funding for lab visits, for training for research within ACMCIP remit - 1 Mar 2018
- AfOx: Visiting Fellows Program - short fellowships for Africa-Oxford collaborations - 11 Mar 2018
- Wellcome Trust: Investigator Awards - enable independent researchers with compelling research vision to tackle the most important questions in science - 12 Mar
- Wellcome Trust: Senior Research Fellowships in Basic Biomedical Science - provides support for established independent UK/ROI-based researchers who are leaders in their field - 12 Mar 2018
- Wellcome Trust: Senior Research Fellowships in Public Health and Tropical Medicine - for researchers from low & middle-income countries to establish themselves as leading investigators in their field, for research that will improve PH and TM - 12 Mar 2018
- Royal Society: International Exchanges - for UK researchers to visit a new potential collaborator - 13 Mar 2018 & 2 Oct 2018
- CIDRZ Global Public Health Fellowship - 10-12 month fellowship starting Aug 2018 - Mar 2018
- Wellcome Trust: Seed Awards in Science - to help researchers develop novel ideas that will go on to form part of larger grant applications to Wellcome or elsewhere - 22 Mar 2018 & 5 Jul 2018
- Wellcome Trust: Research Career Development Fellowships - support for ROI postdocs aiming to become independent scientists - 4 Apr 2018
- Wellcome Trust: Sir Henry Dale Fellowships - support for UK postdocs aiming to become independent scientists - 4 Apr 2018
- Wellcome Trust: Research Enrichment - Public Engagement - helps Wellcome grantholders engage the public with their research - 16 Apr 2018 & 9 Jul 2018
- Wellcome Trust: Collaborative Awards in Science - funding teams of researchers to work together on the most important scientific problems - 24 Apr 2018
- Wellcome Trust: Intermediate Fellowship in Public Health and Tropical Medicine - for mid-career researchers from low- & middle-income countries to establish independent research programmes for PH&TM - 9 May 2018
- Wellcome Trust: Training Fellowships in Public Health and Tropical Medicine - offers research experience and training for early-stage researchers from low- and middle-income countries - 9 May 2018
- Wellcome Trust: Clinical Research Development Fellowships - enables UK/ROI medical, dental, vet, and clinical psychology graduates to continue their research at postdoc level and develop scientific independence - 13 Aug 2018
Of course there are many other open calls we've spotted previously - they're all listed on our external funding pages.
- Partnerships for Enchanced Engagement in Research (PEER) Women in Science Mentoring Program - if you missed our mentoring scheme this year, this is an opportunity for you to find a mentor - 16 Mar 2018
- 6th Edinburgh Clinical Research Methodology Course - 23 Apr 2018
- Partnering & matchmaking event: research and innovation on monitoring and control of infectious diseases (One Health) - consortium building event - 6 Jun 2018
Jobs:
- Lecturer in Biostatistics (non-clinical) - Imperial College, UK - 26 Feb 2018
- Regional Programme Manager NC3Rs - MRC, UK - 27 Feb 2018
- Programme Manager Challenge-led Innovation (maternity cover), NC3Rs - MRC, UK - 2 Mar 2018
- Science Manager Experimental Design, Analysis and Reporting NC3Rs - MRC, UK - 2 Mar 2018
- Assistant Prof in Pathobiology of Disease - University of Toronto, Canada - 15 Mar 2018
- Prof in International Health - Laval University, Canada - 23 Mar 2018
Paper spotted this week in our field: Sensitive and less invasive confirmatory diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis in Sudan using loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) - if you publish a paper and would like us to publicise it across the network, do forward it to our Network Manager.
Twitter (@NetworkVALIDATE) has been busy with the 5th Global Forum on TB Vaccines taking place in Delhi this week - and the announcement of the results of the South African Phase II H4:IC31/ BCG revaccination trial. We've flagged a survey by LSHTM that shows France is the country most distrustful of vaccines; an MRC article on how to take your research into schools to inspire the next generation of STEM researchers; and a blog post of 31 academic hashtags that could enhance your career. If you use human samples in your research and are based in the UK then you can help UK biobanking to identify barriers to sample access by completing their quick survey here. Finally, we tweeted a great article on melioidosis research efforts "This disease kills half the people it infects. Why isn't more being done?" by Wellcome's Mosaic platform, and retweeted IVAC's Kate O'Brien post about how to account for the full public health value of vaccine.
I'll close with an excellent statement by Aeras's Barry Bloom at the TB Vaccine Global Forum yesterday: “Vaccine trials either work or fail. Vaccine research does not fail. We always learn from the research…The only vaccines studies which fail are those from which we fail to learn.”
Published: 21 February 2018
Burkholderia pseudomallei (image by CDC)
