Weekly round-up #268
Welcoming New Members
We are very happy to welcome 10 new members to the VALIDATE community. Check out their profile below, get in touch and perhaps form your next research collaboration.
Investigators
- Dr Aishwarya Venkataraman is an Investigator at the Indian Council of Medical Research–National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, India.
Associates
- Dr Fredrick Ogumbo is based at the Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya.
- Dr Cate Williams is based at Aberystwyth University, UK.
Affiliates
- Dr Emma Carter is based at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK.
- Mrs Zafran Khan is based at the University of Calgary, Canada.
- Dr Godfrey Musoro is based at the University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe.
- Dr Abidemi Esther Ojo is based at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria.
- Dr Alondra Tapia is based at ENCB-IPN, Mexico.
- Mr Donald Vhanda is based at the University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe.
- Ms Xin Wen is based at the Royal Society for Public Health and G Health, China.
Remember to let your friends and colleagues know about the benefits of VALIDATE membership and encourage them to join.
- MRC Applied Global Health Partnership - Funding to develop an integrated research and innovation programme to deliver UK research capacity and capability - deadline to be announced (Mid July 2023)
- UKRI cross research council responsive mode pilot scheme - Funding for interdisciplinary ideas that transcend, combine or significantly span disciplines - Deadline TBA
- Future Rural Africa: Female Researcher’s Grants - Grants is to promote female researchers at all stages of their careers deadline 30 March 2024
Find a full list of all relevant external funding on our external funding page.
Training Opportunities and Events:
- Asset Africa: Proposal Writing & Fund-Raising Masterclass, Heron Portico Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya, 19 June 2023
- BSI - Functions, signatures and biomarkers, Online, 10 July 2023
- VIDO - Postdoctoral Fellow – Mucosal Vaccines,University of Saskatchewan, Canada, deadline 4 June 2023
You can find up-to-date and relevant career opportunities are on our jobs page.
- BCG-induced trained immunity and emergency granulopoiesis in pathogen agnostic effects of the vaccine, Andualem H et al,
- Leishmania and Leishmaniasis Research: The Past 50 Years and the Future, Chang KP, in MDPI
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Attenuated Mycobacterium tuberculosis Vaccine Protection in a Low Dose Murine Challenge Model, Vidal S et al, in iScience
Check out our Publications Page for members' publications and email VALIDATE@ndm.ox.ac.uk if you want us to include a paper.
Highlights on Twitter this week:
Yahoo News shared fast facts about Tuberculosis (TB), providing a brief overview of this infectious disease that primarily affected the lungs, we highlighted a partnership between Biofabri and IAVI for the development of MTBVAC, a live, attenuated tuberculosis vaccine, and UNICEF's vaccinated 30 million Nigerian children in five years. WHO director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke about the #EndTB campaign. University World News shared a list of articles about the implication of AI for research and ISNTD shared a video discussing novel approaches to TB. Nature Careers featured an article by Kelly Korreck, who shared her experience of intense burnout and how she managed it by taking a step back from work, reported on concerns raised by scientists regarding proposed EU data laws, and announced that China had surpassed the United States in overall research contribution, based on the latest data from the Nature Index. Keep up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter..
Published: 31 May 2023
