Weekly round-up #99

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Weekly round-up #99

Our 8th newsletter is out! It's a short and informative read, highlighting the news and events from VALIDATE that you need to know about, including:

  • Our most recent pump-priming funded projects and training grant recipients
  • Reports and videos from our 2019 events
  • Our current open mentoring call
  • Plus publications, job vacancies, how to find collaborators via VALIDATE… and much, much more!

So take a quick look and read through what's been happening - and, of course, we welcome any feedback you may have.

Funding: 

Find all other funding opportunities on our external funding page.

 

Training Opportunities:

  • PEER Women in Science Mentoring Programme - Tuberculosis focus call - To support networks of female scientists conducting research of the development of effective tools for the prevention, detection and treatment of tuberculosis - deadline 10 Jan 2020
  • Soapbox Science - A public outreach platform for promoting women scientists and the science they do, with events throughout 2020 all over the world - application deadline 2 Mar 2020

Take a look at our training opportunities page for ideas for your career development.

Events:

Visit our events page for all the other upcoming events in our field.

 

Job Opportunities

You can view all the vacancies in our field visit our job webpage.

 

 

 

Publications:

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: Private labs in India join together to fight the battle against TB; Rashidi Gora is finding missing TB cases in Tanzania using his motorcycle; the Stop TB Partnership launch their 'Global Plan to End TB 2018-2022'; LSE Impact outlines key policy issues around PhD education; a TAG report shows that TB research and development funding is still falling short; a vaccine which could 'revolutionise' tuberculosis treatment has been unveiled by researchers; and Tulane University has been awarded $1.5 million for tuberculosis vaccine research. All this and more @NetworkVALIDATE where you can easily keep up to date on news and opinions in our field.

 

Published: 11 December 2019