Weekly round-up #56

Our final newsletter of 2018 has now been released - it has information about everything that we have been doing here at VALIDATE over the past three months, our open calls, new developments, publications by our members and more, so do take a look!

We also now have a VALIDATE account on LinkedIn. Connecting with us is an easy way to stay up to date with the latest funding/job opportunities on your newsfeed, and to more easily link up with other VALIDATE members (as only VALIDATE members can connect with our account). So get in touch and connect!

Funding:

VALIDATE Pump-priming grants - up to £50,000 for up to 12 months for projects leading to relevant and useful data for the field, or pilot data that will lead to larger grant applications. Cross-pathogen research, cross-discipline research, projects promoting the One Health agenda, in vivo research, translational research, collaborative projects led by and/or involving LMIC researchers, new collaborations between VALIDATE members, projects led by and/or including Early Career Researchers,and projects with industry involvement are particularly encouraged - deadline 12 Feb 2019
VALIDATE Training grants - up to £3,000 for Associate members to take advantage of training opportunities that will contribute to their professional development - deadline 12 Feb 2019
MRC UKRI Physics of Life call for proposals - interdisciplinary work that brings together physics and the life sciences - deadline 15 Jan 2019, full proposals submitted by 12 Feb 2019

Our website has information about all funding opportunities that we have spotted.

Training Opportunities:

Professional Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (East African Partnership), LSHTM - a three month, full time short course taught by School staff and colleagues in Tanzania and Uganda. Designed for doctors planning to work in Africa - 26 Aug - 22 Nov 2019 - deadline 14 Jan 2019
Professional Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, LSHTM - an intensive, three-month, full-time course in tropical medicine and public health for physicians - 23 Sep - 23 Dec 2019 - deadline 14 Jan 2019
McGill Summer Institute in Infectious Diseases and Global Health - selection of courses held in Canada June 10-21 2019 - deadline is 28 Feb 2019 for those needing Canada travel visa, registration closes 1 May 2019

Go to our training opportunities page for even more opportunities.

Events

Early Career Microbiologists' Forum Summer Conference - 20-21 June 2019, Dublin, Ireland - early bird registration rate until 27 May 2019
Mycobacterium bovis Conference - 8-11 June 2020, Galway, Ireland

Check out our events page for further events.

Job Opportunities:

Any vacancies that we have found that members might be interested in can be found on our website.

Publications:

Have a look at our publications page for publications by our members and in the fields of our focus pathogens.

On Twitter this week: watch videos produced by Oxford Vaccine Group about how vaccines work and are developed; find out about the EU's Joint Action on Vaccination drive to improve vaccination rates; nominations for the Royal Society medals and awards are now open; read about a new measure for assessing vaccine hesitancy in PLOS One; take a look at the latest WHO report into progress towards measles elimination; on the BSI blog find out about the importance of resilience in a scientific career; and learn more about eight women who helped lay the foundations for the vaccines of today.

Follow @NetworkVALIDATE to find out more.

Published: 12 December 2018