Weekly round-up #77

Weekly round-up #77

Our 6th call for VALIDATE training grant applications is now closed! Best of luck to everyone who applied. Outcomes from this round will be announced in late July. Our next training grant call will open in August 2019.

The 4th round of VALIDATE pump priming grants will be opening in July 2019; for more details such as guidance documents, FAQs and more, click here.

Funding:

MRC-AMED Infectious Disease Research Collaboration - To support early career researchers develop international collaborations in the field of infectious diseases - closes 4 Sep 2019
Wellcome Trust Research Fellowships in Humanities and Social Science - This scheme supports postdoctoral researchers in health-related humanities and social sciences who do not hold established academic posts - closes 2 Jul
Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowships - To support independent researchers who want to tackle the most important questions in science and who are leaders in their field - closes 25 Jul 2019
Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Career Development Fellowships - This scheme enables clinically active healthcare professionals to continue their research at postdoctoral level and develop scientific independence - closes 6 Aug 2019
Wellcome Trust International Master's Fellowships - This scheme offers nationals of low- and middle-income countries the opportunity to receive training at Master’s degree level - closes 30 Aug
Wellcome Trust International Training Fellowships - This scheme offers nationals of low- and middle-income countries the opportunity to receive training at postgraduate or postdoctoral level - closes 21 Nov 2019
Wellcome Trust International Intermediate Fellowships - This scheme offers nationals of low- and middle-income countries the opportunity to lead their own research programmes - closes 21 Nov 2019

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

Training Opportunities:

No new training opportunities this week, but visit our training opportunities page for lots of ideas for your career development.

Publications:

The generation of T-cell memory to protect against tuberculosis in Immunology & Cell Biology
Assessment of Vaccine-Induced Immunity Against Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis in Frontiers in Veterinary Science
History of BCG Vaccine in Maedica

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 and social media.

On Twitter this week: a survey showing that 75% of the world's population agree that vaccines are safe and effective; the World Bank decides to join India's fight against TB by investing 400 million USD into 9 targeted states; read an interesting article on how major R&D funding is needed to reach 2030 goal for ending TB epidemic; take a look at some tips to help you write your grant application; an appeal has been launched by President Macron, Elton John and Peter Sands to help save 16 million lives in fighting AIDS, TB and malaria; an article on how inaction in India has led to thousands of new leprosy patients; "Do vaccines wear out?" and other vaccine-related questions answered by Beate Kampmann and the BBC; watch an interesting video on what you didn't know about Leishmaniasis and how to avoid it; a survey by Nature showing the main concerns of early-career researchers; and interesting diagnostics/treatment TB articles curated in an Open Forum TB collection by Oxford University Press. Easily keep up to date on news and opinions in our field @NetworkVALIDATE.

Published: 26 June 2019