Weekly round-up #82
Weekly round-up #82
It's been a busy week at VALIDATE, with lots of decisions made and, correspondingly, a number of congratulations therefore due to many of our members this week. Firstly, our sixth round of VALIDATE Training Grants has been awarded, with congratulations to Dr Shraddha Siwakoti (B. P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Nepal) and Dr Godwin Kwakye-Nuako (University of Cape Coast, Ghana) who will both be going on laboratory exchanges to learn new skills at the University of Leicester and LSHTM respectively. Our next training grant call will open shortly, and you can read more about our funded Training Grants here to get ideas of how you too could use these grants to accelerate your career and build your research collaborators network.
A second set of congratulations are due to the VALIDATE members who have been succesfully awarded a VALIDATE Travel Scholarship to attend our 2019 ECR Workshop, Annual Meeting and BSI co-hosted Scientific Conference in London, UK:
- Asst Prof Vijay Prajapati, Central University of Rajasthan, India
- Asst Prof Lok Bahadur Shrestha, BPKIHS, Nepal
- Dr Olayinka Osuolale, Elizade University, Nigeria
- Dr Federico Carlos Blanco, National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Argentina
- Assoc Prof Narisara Chantratita, Mahidol University, Thailand
- Dr Panjaporn Chaichana, Mahidol University, Thailand
- Asst Prof Kiran Afshan, Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan
- Dr Abhishek Mandal, ICMR-Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, India
- Dr Chidchamai Kewcharoenwong, Khon Kaen University, Thailand
- Dr Fatoumatta Darboe, MRC The Gambia Unit at LSHTM, The Gambia
- Asst Prof Tufária Mussá, Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique
- Dr Eduardo Milton Ramos Sanchez, USP, Brazil
- Dr Suwarti, EOCRU, Indonesia
- Dr Anthony Afum-Adjei Awuah, KCCR, Ghana
If you are interested in attending any of the VALIDATE 2019 events, you can find further details about the programme, including our great list of Keynote speakers, and how to register on our Annual Meeting webpage.
In addition, we are still on the hunt to find our replacement Postdoctoral Bioinformatician/Computational Biologist for VALIDATE. This role is a fantastic postdoctoral opportunity for a proactive bioinformatician or computational biologist to advance their career and become part of a large, engaged international network of vaccinology researchers. The post-holder will be based at the University of Oxford's Jenner Institute with the VALIDATE team and Prof Helen McShane's TB vaccine research group, and will get to work on varied datasets and lead in their analysis as a crucial member of the VALIDATE Network, with the aim of advancing vaccine development for neglected diseases. Find out more about the role here - and please tell any colleagues who might be interested in the vacancy.
