Weekly round-up #65

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Weekly round-up #65

 

This week we celebrated International Women's Day, writing a VALIDATE blog post highlighting the research and insights of five of our female VALIDATE member scientists. Read more here.

 

Don't forget that we have a mentoring call currently open. The path to becoming a PI is challenging - and not always obvious - and a more senior Scientist mentor from within the VALIDATE Network can help you explore and plan your career goals and how best to get there. Find out more about the benefits of having a mentor, and how to apply on our mentoring page.

 

Funding: 

  • CONFAP-CNPQ - Call for proposals offering support to researchers based in UK Universities and Research Institutions, who are willing to work in research institutions in Brazil, in collaboration with local colleagues - closes 25 Mar 2019
  • CIDRZ Global Public Health Fellowships - Available Fields: Data analysis, Biomedical Science, Clinical Trials, Implementation Science, Tuberculosis, and Adolescent HIV -  closes 27 Mar 2019
  • Crick Institute: African Career Accelerator Awards - fellowship support for African postdoctoral researchers aiming to become an independent researcher and launch their own research group - EOI close 1 Apr 2019
  • NIHR: Health Protection Research Units call - NIHR HPRUs are partnerships between academic institutions & PHE & will act as centres of excellence in multidisciplinary health protection research in England - vaccines is a priority topic - closes 11 Apr 2019
  • OWSD post-doc Fellowships for female STEM researchers from science and technology lagging countries (list here) - closes 30 Apr 2019
  • OWSD PhD Fellowships for female STEM researchers from science and technology lagging countries (list here) - closes 30 May 2019
  • BactiVac Catalyst Training Grants - to support training opportunities and exchanges for bacterial vaccine R&D - open until August 2021

 

For other funding opportunities check out our external funding page.

 

Training Opportunities:

  • CIDRZ Global Public Health Fellowships - Available Fields: Data analysis, Biomedical Science, Clinical Trials, Implementation Science, Tuberculosis, and Adolescent HIV -  closes 27 Mar 2019

 

Visit our training opportunities page for further ideas to develop your career.

 

Events

 

And of course, don't forget to hold the date for the VALIDATE 3rd Annual Meeting and Scientific Conference on 1-3 October 2019.

Visit our events page for further events.

 

Job Opportunities: 

Nothing new, but to view all the vacancies in our field visit our job webpage.

 

Publications:

Check out our publications page for papers of interest by our members and in the fields of our focus pathogens.

 

 

Highlights on Twitter this week: Why warthogs are useful in figuring out how bovine TB spreads; how thousands of measles deaths were averted by an Indian vaccination campaign; Crick and Wellcome videos explaining how mice help us to understand how our immune systems detect and respond to infection; how emerging disease vaccines are becoming too expensive as fair pricing is watered down; a Wellcome call for Early Career Researchers to join their advisory board; learn more about TB via the Global TB Caucus ahead of World TB Day next week; 30 tips for successful academic research and writing; a short film starring VALIDATE Fellow Dr Rachel Tanner "women working on vaccine development", filmed for International Women's Day; how vaccines are one of the most cost-effective public health interventions and 1.5million lives could be saved if global immunisation rates improved; herd immunity: how it works; a fun Oxford Sparks animation of how our immune systems work; and an Op-Ed "why we should fear the disease, not the vaccine". Follow @NetworkVALIDATE to keep up to date on news and opinions in our field.

 

Apologies that there will be no round-up next week as we'll be at the BactiVac Network Annual Meeting, but we'll be back online the following week.

 

Published: 13 March 2019