Weekly round-up #51

It is almost November, which means that there is no time at all until our 2nd Annual Meeting and ECR Workshop! We are looking forward to seeing all of our delegates there, hearing about their latest research, and helping to expand their collaborative networks. If any registered delegates have queries or questions please feel free to send them to Sam or Ellie at validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk.

VALIDATE Co-Director Professor Helen McShane was a Key Speaker at World Vaccine Congress Europe, where she gave a talk entitled "Global Progress In TB Vaccine Development"; we hope that some of our members were at the conference and able to attend Helen's talk!

Round 4 of VALIDATE's Training Grants has now closed. If you missed the deadline or have spotted a future opportunity then don't worry, there will be further rounds opening every few months. Just keep an eye on our website and twitter; we will also email out more information to Associates when each call opens and nears its deadline.

Funding:

Gnatwork Transformative Science pump-priming grant - up to £100,000 per project for multi-vector research into specific areas of preliminary research that are sufficiently novel to lead to future, large-scale funding - deadline 7 Dec 2018
ERC Consolidator Grants - up to 2,000,000EURO for a period of 5 years to enable researchers to establish or strengthen independent research teams - deadline 7 Feb 2019
EDCTP Clinical Research and Development Fellowships - Up to 100,000EURO per person to fund placements in pharmaceutical companies, PDPs and CROs for researchers and key members of clinical research teams from sub-Saharan Africa - deadline 7 March 2019

Take a look at more relevant external funding opportunities on our website.

Training Opportunities:

All training opportunities that we have spotted are listed on our training opportunities page.

Events

Tuberculosis: Mechanisms, Pathogenesis and Treatment Symposium, 17-21 Nov 2019 - discounted registration deadline 20 Nov 2018

And very soon the VALIDATE 2nd Annual Meeting on the 6-7th November!

Job Opportunities:

GSK Immunologist maternity cover - deadline 7 Nov 2018
Research Associates at University of York - deadline 14 Nov 2018
Assistant Professor of Infection Immunology at University of Nottingham - deadline 6 Dec 2018

More job opportunities can be found on our website

Publications:

Tissue and host species-specific transcriptional changes in models of experimental visceral leishmaniasis by VALIDATE Network Management Board Member Prof Paul Kaye and collaborators, in Wellcome Open Research

Our publications page has a list of papers that are relevant to our focus pathogens. Don't forget to let us know when you publish a paper and we will add it to our website.

On Twitter this week: read an interview with Prof Peter Hotez about his efforts to counter the anti-vaccine movement; take a look at an article about how the war against TB is slowly turning in our favour; the Telegraph has published an article reporting on vaccine scepticism levels in Europe; join the Standing Up for Science workshop run by the MRC to learn how to communicate research as an ECR; find out about the door-to-door screening and treatment leprosy campaign that is about to start in Delhi; watch videos of the Royal Society's research culture conference; and read about six factors that could be influencing your academic writing productivity and satisfaction.

Published: 31 October 2018