Weekly round-up #88

Weekly round-up #88

Registration for our 2019 events - our 2nd ECR workshop, 3rd Annual Meeting, and VALIDATE-BSI conference - closed on Friday. We're excited to be welcoming just under 100 delegates to London for what promise to be three interesting and highly relevant events plus, of course, the opportunity to meet with other VALIDATE members from around the world. Who knows, this could result in a new collaboration or a laboratory exchange for you! We look forward to seeing many of you at these events in October.

Funding:

AAS Africa India Mobility Fund - To support African or Indian scientists who wish to conduct visits of up to 3 months in either direction - deadline 4 Oct 2019
Fogarty Emerging Global Leader Award - To provide research support and protected time to an academic junior or research scientist from LMIC - deadline 7 Nov, letter of intent due 30 days prior
L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women In Science International Awards 'Life Sciences' 2020 - To identify and support women for their contribution to the advancement of life sciences - awards to be given Mar 2020
Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID) Programme - To encourage high quality, innovative research on what influences the transmission of infectious diseases - deadine 20 Nov 2019
ERC Starting Grants - To support excellent Principal Investigators starting their own independent research team or programme - deadline 16 Oct 2019
ERC Synergy Grant - To support a small group of 2-4 Principal Investigators to jointly address ambitious research - deadline 5 Nov 2019
The British Academy's 'Writing Workshops' Call - Inviting proposals for writing workshops in LMICs to support early career academics - deadline 6 Nov 2019

Find more funding opportunities on our website.

Training Opportunities:

Nothing new this week, so take a look at our training opportunities page for ideas.

Publications:

BCG vaccine and leprosy household contacts: Protective effect and probability to becoming sick during follow-up in Vaccine
The global impact and cost-effectiveness of a melioidosis vaccine in BMC Medicine by VALIDATE member Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay and collaborators

All relevant publications by our members and others are listed on our publications page. Let us know when you publish a paper and we will share it with the network.

On Twitter this week: an informative article on Tuberculosis by TB Alliance; Melvin Sanicas discusses what makes TB the world's most infectious killer; the new UK immunological Toolbox website is live; Jeremy Farrar at Wellcome discusses reimagining how we do research; Peter Hotez highlights an anti-vaxxer who regrets not vaccinating their child after he nearly dies of measles; and an ERC 2020 webinar that tells you all about these funding opportunities. All this and more @NetworkVALIDATE. Do follow us if you're on Twitter!

Published: 11 Sep 2019