Weekly round-up #53
Weekly round-up #53
This week we are thoroughly excited to have reached 200 members in the VALIDATE network! This is a fantastic achievement, and opens up so many collaborative opportunities across the world for our members. Don't forget that you can find out more about each member's research in our members directory.
We would like to offer a warm welcome to our most recent new members:
New Investigators: Prof Johnjoe McFadden (University of Surrey, UK); Dr Alberto García-Basteiro (CISM, Mozambique) and Affil Prof Rhea Coler (University of Washington/IDRI, USA)
New Associates: Dr Peeraya Ekchariyawat (Mahidol University, Thailand); Dr Ji-Sook Lee (LSHTM, UK); Dr Diane Lee (University of Surrey, UK) and Dr Sarah Sebastian (Vaccitech Ltd, UK)
New Affiliates: Dr Nawamin Pinpathomrat (University of Oxford, UK); Emily Hoogkamer (University of Oxford, UK); Dr Sarah Leonard (Immunocore, UK); Dr Keith Haffer (AdvantageBio, USA); Rachel Wittenberg (University of Oxford, UK); Salem Almujri (University of Oxford, UK); Marine Meunier (Valneva SE, France); Fotsa Forjoh Blondeau (University of Buea, Cameroon); Ugochukwu Madubueze (Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, Nigeria); Laura Hunter (PHE, UK); Ritika Sengupta (ICMR, India) and Julia Bitencourt (IGM-FIOCRUZ, Brazil).
We are also very pleased to announce that we have awarded another round of VALIDATE training grants - congratulations to the successful applicants! This round of grants will go to:
Dr Paulo Bettencourt (University of Oxford, UK) - to visit and train at Albert Einstein College of Medicine Immunology
Dr Khushboo Borah (University of Surrey, UK) - to attend a training course and lab exchange at ICL
Dr Olayinka Osuolale (Elizade University, Nigeria) - to attend the ADVAC course
Dr Elena Stylianou (University of Oxford, UK) - to present at the Keystone Symposium 2019
Our next training grant round will open shortly, so if you're an Associate do apply if you have a lab exchange, workshop or course that would help your career progression.
