Weekly round-up #73

Weekly round-up #73

We've been busy this week getting ready to open registration for the 2019 Annual Meeting and open Scientific Conference. We're now able to say that the latter will be co-hosted with the British Society for Immunology (BSI). BSI and VALIDATE have many areas of synergy, so this is an exciting opportunity for us to collaborate together. Registration for the meeting and conference will open very shortly; in the meantime, a warm welcome to our newest VALIDATE members joining us:

Associates: Ramesh Poluru (The INCLEN Trust International, India) and Anthony Afum-Adjei Awuah (Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research, Ghana)

Affiliates: Mohamed Hamidouche (Pasteur Institute of Algeria, Algeria)

Funding:

EMBO Global Investigator Programme - Providing funding and platforms for networking with other life scientists in the same region or Europe - closes 1 Jun 2019
Max Perutz Science Writing Award - Prize for MRC-funded PhD student with an interest in communicating their science to a wider audience - closes 26 Jun 2019
IMPRINT Pump-Priming Grant Call - Call from our sister network concentrating on neonatal and maternal vaccinology; open to IMPRINT members (free to join) - closes 5 Jul 2019
IMPRINT Public Engagement Grant Call - Open to IMPRINT members (free to join) - closes 17 Jul 2019
The AAS Affiliates Programme - Seeking early and mid-career scientists in Africa - closes 15 Jul 2019

Have a look at our website for more external funding opportunities.

Training Opportunities:

West African Science Leadership Programme / African Science Initiative (W-ASLP/ASI) - 3 Day workshop on career development and leadership - 21 Jul 2019, Application deadline 22 May 2019

The training opportunities page has information about all upcoming opportunities that you may have missed.

Events

WACCIP Research Conference 2019 - Registration and Abstract submissions are open - 24-26 Jul 2019, no shown application deadline
MSCA Presidency Conference 2019 - High-discussions on how to support excellence through mobility across borders, sectors and disciplines; focusing on impact, challenges and new trends of the MSCA - 4-5 Jun 2019, deadline 25 May 2019
LSTM Seminar: Visceral leishmaniasis control in Brazil - By Professor Gordon Hamilton - 22 May 2019 at 1pm (today)

Our events page has details about any other relevant upcoming external events.

Job Opportunities:

Lecturer of Infectious Diseases - Keele University, deadline 24 Jun 2019

Further positions can be found on our website.

Publications:

Melioidosis in Mexico: a coordinated effort to educate the medical specialists and the community about an unknown disease endemic in the Country in Current Tropical Medicine Reports by VALIDATE member Alfredo Torres and collaborators
Visceral leishmaniasis: An overview of vaccine adjuvants and their applications in Vaccine
Moving tuberculosis vaccines from theory to practice in Nature Reviews Immunology
Identification of potential biomarkers of vaccine inflammation in mice in Immunology and Inflammation by VALIDATE member Deniz Cizmeci and collaborators

Publications that might be relevant to our members can be found on our publications page.

On Twitter this week: find out more about the Master's level vaccinology course which took place in Africa at the MRCG, and which VALIDATE co-sponsored; take a look at how incarceration for drug-related offenses fuels the spread of tuberculosis in Brazil in a report by the Yale Global Health Justice Partnership; watch a tribute video to TB survivor and activist Dean Lewis who recently passed away; exciting news to read as Challenge TB screened 5.3 million people for TB in the first 3 months of 2019; the Global Partnership for Zero Leprosy interview with Morocco Leprosy Programme Manager - Dr Khoudri on the tools needed to work towards zero leprosy; look through an article stating that diagnostics are essential for universal health coverage to succeed by website Stat; enjoy a long thread of Edward Jenner's work myths being busted; and some great news as The US House Appropriations Committee approves increase in funding of $1.56 billion towards fighting AIDS, TB and Malaria.

We tweet about our latest news and any articles, podcasts and more that our members might be interested in - follow @NetworkVALIDATE to stay up to date.

Published: 22 May 2019