Weekly round-up #79
We're now 1 week away from the deadline to submit your abstracts and travel scholarship applications for the 2019 Annual Meeting and BSI co-hosted Scientific Conference! Deadline is the 17th of July at 9:00am BST, email your applications to validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk.
A warm welcome to our newest VALIDATE members!
Associates: Dr Suwarti (Oxford Clinical Research Unit, Indonesia), Asst Prof Robin Basu Roy (LSHTM, UK), Dr Fatoumatta Darboe (LSHTM, UK), and Dr Abhishek Mandal (Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, India).
Affiliates: Mrs Charlotte Sarfas (Stellenbosch University, South Africa).
- LSTM Global Health Future Leaders Scholarship - 4 fully funded places plus partial tuition available for MSc programme - closes 14 Jul 2019
- IMPRINT Industry Placement - 6 month placement between The Vaccine Centre at London School of Hygiene and Pfizer - closes 31 Jul 2019
- MRC Confidence in Concept Fund - £540,000 which can be allocated to individual projects that accelerate the transition from discovery science into therapeutic, diagnostic and vaccine development - closes 5 Aug 2019
Have a look at our website for more external funding opportunities.
- Clinical Vaccine Development and Biomanufacturing Course - 17-20 Sep 2019, Oxford, UK
- Human and Veterinary Vaccinology Course - 14-18 Oct 2019, Oxford, UK
- COSSI Workshop: Improving vaccine confidence demand & uptake - 28-31 Oct 2019, Sydney, Australia
- LSTM Global Health MSc Programme - 8-24 months, Liverpool, UK
The training opportunities page has information about all upcoming opportunities that you may have missed.
- Annual Meeting of Infectious Diseases - Amsterdam, Netherlands, 29-30 Jul 2019
Our events page has details about any other relevant upcoming external events.
- Senior Research Fellow - University of Oxford (Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam), deadline 2 Aug 2019, 12:00pm BST
- Immuno-Epigenetics Biologist - GSK, no deadline stated
- Clinical Research Fellow or Assistant Professor - LSHTM (South Africa), deadline 15 Jul 2019
Further positions can be found on our website.
- Immunometabolic signatures predict risk of progression to active tuberculosis and disease outcome in Frontiers in Immunology by VALIDATE members Jayne Sutherland, Hazel Dockrell, Gerhard Walzl and collaborators
- Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria and Heterologous Immunity to Tuberculosis in The Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Identifying 'hard-to-reach' groups and strategies to engage them in biomedical research: perspectives from engagement practitioners in Southeast Asia in the Wellcome Open Research collection
Publications relevant to our members can be found on our publications page.
On Twitter this week: Learn how TB accounts for more than 1 in 4 antimicrobial resistance fatalities each year; an interesting graph that shows how successful vaccines can be in the modern era; read an article on the estimated number of people living with latent multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB); take a look at an in depth guide on how to write a thesis or dissertation; find out Prof Buchanan's top 25 tips for PhD students from the perspective of a PhD examiner; the stop TB partnership highlights the life of Vivien Leigh who died of TB in 1967; the MRC has re-summarised their explanation of the UK's human tissue legislation; Finland is hoping to test out a new educational video game in schools, to promote the HPV vaccine campaign; and learn more with the free vaccine forum which aims to share knowledge, resources and ideas about vaccines and vaccine development.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: 10 July 2019