Weekly round-up #232
Register today for the 5th VALIDATE Annual Meeting! The meeting will be held on 7-8 March 2023 at the historic BMA House in London, UK. As always, our Annual Meeting will give our members talks from world-leading scientists in our research field, updates from our funded projects on their cutting-edge research, and the chance to meet members from across the globe - and perhaps even find a new collaborator.
2023 will be the first in-person VALIDATE event since 2019, and we are really looking forward to seeing all our members in person! The Annual Meeting is open to all VALIDATE members, with members from academia, industry, government bodies, and non-governmental agencies all welcome.
Attendance at the Annual Meeting is free for all members, but spaces are limited so sign up asap - www.validate-network.org/ANNUAL-MEETING-2023
- 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 you and your team alone? The Synergy Grants could be for you - deadline 8 November 2022
- UK-US research: ecology and evolution of infectious diseases 2022 - Apply to research the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases - deadline 16 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
Training Opportunities and Events:
- EMBO Workshop on Tuberculosis 2022, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, 12 - 16 September 2022
- 16th Vaccine Congress, Lake Garda, Italy, 12 - 14 September 2022
- Molecular Parasitology Meeting XXXIII, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA, 18 September 2022
- Tenure Track Faculty, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, North Carolina, USA, 14 November 2022
- Beneficial non-specific effects of live vaccines against COVID-19 and other unrelated infections, in Peter Aaby P et al, PlumX Metrics
- Evaluation of two different vaccine platforms for immunization against melioidosis and glanders, Sergei S. Biryukov SS et al, in Frontiers in Microbiology
- Measuring the sero-prevalence of Leishmania donovani induced cutaneous leishmaniasis: A method comparison study, Bhagya Deepachandi B et al, in Parasitology International
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:
The Union promoted their Online Congress, we promoted MRC funding for COVID vaccines, and the BSI tweeted a reminder about abstracts for their 2023 Congress. The African Union has called for swift action in fighting childhood TB, new studies confirm that BCG only protects children and not adults against TB and Hugh Kearns shared #7PhDSecrets. Nature Careers reported on the bullying of overseas researchers, we celebrated Dr Rachel Tanner’s new appointment to Associate Professor at Oxford Biology and VALIDATE Member Hazel Dockrell talked about research that suggests BCG protects diabetes sufferers from COVID. Keep up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter.
Published: 31 August 2022
