We've had three new Associate members join VALIDATE this week - a big welcome to Dr Louise Gourlay (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy), Dr Olayinka Osuolale (Elizade University, Nigeria), and Dr Jomien Mouton (Stellenbosch University, South Africa). They take us to 123 members from 64 institutes across 26 countries, which is fantastic! We're an inclusive network, so do pass on our details to colleagues and collaborators for whom we may be useful, so they can join and benefit from VALIDATE too.
News this week:
Funding:
- DST-NRF: Fellowships for ECRs - for researchers based in the UK to do a postdoctoral fellowship at a South African institute - 11 May 2018
- IMPRINT pump-priming grants - our sister GCRF Network, focusing on maternal and neonatal immunisation science, and also offering pump-priming funding - 11 May 2018
- IMPRINT fellowships - Fellowships for maternal and neonatal immunisation science - 11 May 2018
- ESRC: Large grants - for ESRC remit social science (and interdisciplinary) research - 14 Jun 2018
- ESRC: New Investigator Grants - for post-doc transition to independence; ESRC remit social science (and interdisciplinary) research - applications any time
- ESRC: Research Grants - for ESRC remit social science (and interdisciplinary) research - applications any time
Training opportunities:
- Biology of Parasitism course - a week long course targeted at PhD students and early postdocs at KEMRI, Kenya - 3-7 Sept 2018 *application deadline 15 June* Course is free to some participants
Events:
Job opportunities:
Papers of interest:
Finally, on Twitter this week we've spotted lots of news of interest: a couple of PhD funding calls (here and here); a webinar "what happens when you send your manuscript to a journal" with advice on how to engage constructively with journals; a list of the best advice given to one student over the course of her PhD; news of a clinical trial to find treatment for visceral leishmaniasis starting in East Africa; congratulations to Tanzania who have begun vaccinating 600,000 girls against cervical cancer, a fantastic target that will make a huge difference to their health; how 35% of Commonwealth citizens (841 million) are affected by NTDs; learn more about leprosy with these FAQs; a new study aiming to stop leprosy transmission by treating before the first symptoms are visible; a chance for MRC/Wellcome funded PhD students to do a policy internship; the MRC have funded five innovative technology networks; what the EU GDPR and Data Protection Act updates mean for your research; debunking five damaging vaccine myths; and how vaccines can have an important role in poverty reduction. Follow us on Twitter @NetworkVALIDATE to easily keep track of all the news in vaccine development.
Published: 18 April 2018
