Weekly round-up #97
We would like to begin this week by announcing the awardees of our most recent funding calls!
Firstly, our seventh round of VALIDATE Training Grants has been awarded, with congratulations to Dr Fatoumatta Darboe (MRC Unit, The Gambia), who will be attending the EMBL-EBI summer school in bioinformatics, and Dr Victoria Humbert (University of Southampton, UK), who will be taking part in a laboratory exchange at UFMG, Brazil.
Secondly, our fourth round of VALIDATE Pump-Priming Grants have been selected, so congratulations to:
- Dr Justice Boakye-Appiah (St George's, University of London, UK)
- Prof Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay (Kasturba Medical College, India)
- Assoc Prof Gabriele Pollara (UCL, UK)
- Assoc Prof Matthew Rogers (LSHTM, UK)
- Prof Samantha Sampson (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
- Dr Iman Satti (University of Oxford, UK)
- Dr Lisa Stockdale (University of Oxford, UK)
- Dr Simon Waddell (University of Sussex, UK)
To read about these eight exciting projects, click here.
- MRC Health Systems Research Initiative Call 7 - To generate world-class and cutting-edge research that addresses key questions on strengthening and improving health systems in LMICs - outline stage call deadline 21 Jan 2020
Find all other funding opportunities on our external funding page.
- University of Edinburgh - Strategic Leadership in Research Programme - 6 dates between Apr - Oct 2020, application deadline 2 Dec 2019
Take a look at our training opportunities page for further ideas for your career development.
- FRSA Science Days - Thematic Seminar 'Tuberculosis in South Africa: perspectives' - Pretoria, South Africa, 2 Dec 2019
- IABS 3rd Human Challenge Trials in Vaccine Development Meeting - Oxford, UK, 6-7 Feb 2020
- 'Optimmunize: Improving the beneficial effects of vaccines' Conference - Wellcome Genome Campus, UK, 19-21 Feb 2020
Visit our events page for all the other upcoming events in our field.
- Research Fellow Bioinformatician - UCL, London, UK, deadline 10 Jan 2020
To view all the vacancies in our field visit our job webpage.
- Modelling the immune system response: an application to leishmaniasis in Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering
- Novel vaccine technologies for the 21st century in Nature Reviews Immunology
- The catastrophic cost of tuberculosis: advancing research and solutions in The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, by VALIDATE member Delia Boccia and collaborators
- Vaccines and global health: In search of a sustainable model for vaccine development and delivery in Science Translational Medicine
Take a look at our publications page for papers of interest by our members and in the fields of our focus pathogens.
Highlights on Twitter this week: Advice for researchers completing a literature review; a collaboration between Biofabri, IAVI and SATVI on clinical trial of TB vaccine candidate MTBVAC in South African adults; a growing number of funders are awarding grants partly through lottery; Infolep has announced the new and improved version of their open access leprosy information website; VALIDATE member Hua Wang discusses how his post-doc helped him prepare to set up his own research group; the Working Scientist podcast find out how PhD programmes can become more flexible, collaborative and rewarding; Nature discusses how many students are dissatisfied with their mentorship; and Colorado State University has received $1.2 million in NIH funding to advance work on a new TB vaccine. All this and more @NetworkVALIDATE where you can easily keep up to date on news and opinions in our field.
Published: 27 November 2019