Weekly round-up #249
Happy New Year From VALIDATE
VALIDATE has an incredibly busy 2023 ahead, not least because of our first face-to-face Annual Meeting since 2019. VALIDATE is here to support its members so get in touch if there is anything we can help with. Here is a quick reminder of some of the support we offer:
- Round 14 of our Training Grants is still open.
- LMIC members can take advantage of our equipment exchange initiative.
- Take part in our mentorship programme and have the support of a leader in the field.
- Join us for our first Seminar of 2023 and watch our archive of previous VALIDATE Seminars
Please keep us up to date
- Let us know if of any events you plan to attend
- Keep us up to date about your latest publications so we can share your research with members
- Email VALIDATE@ndm.ox.ac.uk if you have any requests you want to ask your fellow members we can include in news items and the monthly update.
- ERC Proof of Concept Grants - Have you already received an ERC grant for your frontier research project and now want to explore the commercial or societal potential of your work? The ERC Proof of Concept Grant could be for you - Deadline 23 January 2023
- Innovate 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 25 January 2023
- Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) - Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) accelerate business innovation by supporting knowledge exchange with academic institutions - deadline 25 January 2023
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:
- Acid Fast Club Winter 2023, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, 6 January 2023
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BSI SIGNET 2023 Perth, UK, 8 February 2024
- Research Assistant - Immunology, NDM Experimental Medicine , University if Oxford, UK, Deadline 13 January 2023
Other relevant career opportunities are on our jobs page.
- Listeria-vectored multi-antigenic tuberculosis vaccine protects C57BL/6 and BALB/c mice and guinea pigs against Mycobacterium tuberculosis challenge, Qingmei Jia O et al, in Nature Communications Biology
- Interleukin-27 impairs BCG antigen clearance and T cell stimulatory potential by neonatal dendritic cells, Bradford SD et al, in Current Research in Microbial Sciences
- RNA-seq Analysis of the BCG Vaccine in a Humanized Mouse Model (preprint), Wang J et al, in Zoonoses
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis induces delayed lipid droplet accumulation in dendritic cells depending on bacterial viability and virulence, Souza Costa MF et al, in
- BCG-activation of leukocytes is sufficient for the generation of donor-independent innate anti-tumor NK and γδ T-cells that can be further expanded in vitro, Esteso G et al in OncoImmunology
- A protective, single-visit TB vaccination regimen by co-administration of a subunit vaccine with BCG (preprint), Mortensen R et al, in NPJ Vaccines
- Hcp1-loaded staphylococcal membrane vesicle vaccine protects against acute melioidosis, Zhu K et al Including VALIDATE member Nargis Khan, in Frontiers in Immunology
- Functional characterization and immunogenicity of a novel vaccine candidate against tick-borne encephalitis virus based on Leishmania-derived virus-like particles
- Author links open overlay, Zimna M et al, in Antiviral Research
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:
Nature reported that the US FDA is looking at alternatives to animal testing in its research, Devex and the Stop TB Coalition have begun their #TalkingTB series, and IVVN wished followers a happy new year. TB News Daily reported that in 1923 scientists predicted the elimination of TB by 2023, ATUM discussed the limitations of BCG, and Nature reported on their survey of Science Graduate’s career choices. Brazil ended 2022 with alarming childhood vaccination coverage, Nature Careers reported on a tumultuous 2022 for science researchers, and the CDC in the US is looking for collaborators for the TB work. Keep up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter.
Published: 4 January 2023
