Weekly round-up #230

VALIDATE Funding Calls

We are very pleased to announce two new funding opportunities from VALIDATE:

Travel Grants to attend the VALIDATE 2023 Annual Meeting: A number of travel grants are available from VALIDATE to enable low and middle income country (LMIC) members to join the 2023 Annual Meeting in person. Up to £3000 per person is available, to cover travel and subsistence costs. Applications are reviewed and awarded by the VALIDATE Network Management Board (NMB). The deadline is 12 Septmember and you can find out more an apply on our website.

VALIDATE Training Grants: Training grants are available of up to £3500 to help Early Career Researchers (Associates) take advantage of a continuing professional development opportunity, including attending a course/workshop, visiting another laboratory for training/networking, or (LMIC only) presenting at a conference. Applications will be reviewed on a one-by-one basis, as they are submitted, until this pot of funding is spent. Find out more and apply on our training grants webpage.

Annual Meeting 2023 - Poster Abstracts Call

Along with keynote talks, research presentations by VALIDATE-funded projects, and time for networking, we aim to hold a poster session at the 2023 VALIDATE Annual Meeting, so that more VALIDATE members can publicise their research. This call is open to all members. To submit a poster abstract for the VALIDATE 2023 Annual Meeting/ The call closes 12 September 2022 and you can find out more and apply using the Abstract Submission Form found on the Annual Meeting Page.

Funding:

UKRI-Defra One Health approach to vector-borne diseases - Funding to forecast, understand, mitigate and avoid vector (arthropod) borne disease (VBD) threats to the UK - Deadline 27 October 2022
NIH Planning Grant for Global Infectious Disease Research Training Program - To support an LMIC-US collaborative planning process that will prepare faculty and design courses and resources for a research training programme - deadline 29 October 2022
ERC Synergy Grants 2022 - Are you a researcher that wants to address a research problem so ambitious, that can not be dealt with by you and your team alone? The Synergy Grants could be for you - deadline 8 November,2022
MRC - Clinical Academic Research Partnerships, 2022 - This scheme offered a new mechanism for clinical staff at consultant level with a PhD or MD who were not currently research active to participate in collaborative high-quality research partnerships with established leading biomedical researchers - deadline 17 November 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:

Immune surveillance in the ageing microenvironment, Sheffield, United Kingdom Monday 3 October 2022
London Infections & Immunity Symposium, Francis Crick Institute, London, UK, 31 October - 1 November 2022
OPTIMMUNIZE 2022, Odense, Denmark, 7 - 9 November 2022
Microbiology Society Annual Conference 2023, Birmingham, UK, 17 - 20 April 2023

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

Job Opportunities:

Post Doctoral Fellow, Rutgers University, New Jersey USA, No stated deadline.

More relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.

Publications:

Investigating resistance in clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates with genomic and phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing: a multicentre observational study, Finci I et al, in Lancet Microbe
Infant BCG vaccination and risk of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis throughout the life course: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis, VALIDATE Member Leo Martinez et al in The Lancet Global Health
Towards Reverse Vaccinology for Bovine TB: High Throughput Expression of Full-Length Recombinant Mycobacterium bovis Proteins, Authors include VALIDATE members Deepa Paliwal, Michelle Thom, and Ian M. Jones, in Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences

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:

Bactivac shared recordings from the GVIRF webinar on the role of vaccines in preventing AMR, TB News Daily called for $550 million dollars to be spent on TB vaccines, and the BSI continues to the Stick to Science campaign. The Boston Review wrote an article on the forgotten global TB Pandemic, the Conversation declared the COVID lab leak theory dead and Nature Careers Shared stories about the loss of funding in the UK. The oldest case of human leprosy was discovered and dated to over 4,000 years ago, A study suggests that BCG can protect type 1 diabetes sufferers from COVID-19, and another study suggests that TB can work in infants but not older people. Keep up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter.

Published: 17 August 2022