Weekly round-up #99

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:

GHIT Fund Product Development Platform - request for proposals - Opportunity for the development of new drugs, vaccines, or diagnostics for infectious diseases that are prevalent in the developing world - deadline 17 Dec 2019
4-Year PhD Programme in Epidemiology, Evolution and Control of Infectious Disease - 1+3 year PhD training programme, providing unique inter-disciplinary training in infectious disease epidemiology, mathematical modelling and statistics, genetics and evolution, and computational models - deadline 3 Jan 2020
NIH Mechanisms of mycobacterial-induced immunity in HIV-infected and/or uninfected individuals to inform innovative tuberculosis vaccine design - To support innovative studies that identify and understand the immune responses that mediate protection from M.tb infection or progression to active tuberculosis disease - deadline 14 Jan 2020
Africa Oxford Initiative - AfOx Research Impact and Engagement Acceleration Awards (RIEA) - To support 'on the ground' impact/knowledge exchange activities in Africa which enable researchers to engage with the public, private and third sectors - deadline 15 Jan 2020
PhD Studentship 'A novel pulmonary fluid dynamic tool for early diagnosis of tuberculosis' - Three-year full-time position at the University of Brighton to try and develop a new diagnostic tool to quantify the extent of damage caused by tuberculosis in the lungs - deadline 17 Jan 2020
NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize - To reward innovative research by young investigators working on the functional attributes of the microbiota that can contribute to veterinary health and understanding disease - deadline 24 Jan 2020
Africa Oxford Initiative - Senior AfOx Visiting Fellowships - Five fellowships for African researchers to visit University of Oxford for 6-9 months between Jul 2020 and Jun 2021, with the proposed research to be working towards the sustainable development goals - deadline 31 Jan 2020
Africa Oxford Initiative - AfOx Research Development Awards (ReDA) - To support previously funded AfOx Travel Grant recipients & Visiting Fellows from African institutes to follow up on their ideas discussed with Oxford-based colleagues - deadline 31 Jan 2020
MRC-KHIDI UK-Korea Partnering Awards - To provide resources to biomedical and health researchers in the UK and Korea to help form long-term collaborations - deadline 31 Jan 2020
EDCTP Senior Fellowships Plus - Up to 500,000 euros for senior researchers in sub-Saharan Africa to support them in becoming long-term trainers and mentors for junior researchers - deadline 1 Feb 2020
Africa Oxford Initiative - AfOx Travel Grants - To support the establishment of new collaborations between researchers in African countries and their collaborators at the University of Oxford - no deadline, ongoing call

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:

Free Webinar - Staying well during your PhD, postdoc or research career - Online, 12 Dec 2019 at 01:00 (UK)
RSM Spotlight on falling vaccination rates - London, UK, 20 Feb 2020

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

Job Opportunities:

4-Year PhD Programme in Epidemiology, Evolution and Control of Infectious Disease - Imperial College London, UK, deadline 3 Jan 2020
Research Fellow in Infectious Disease Modelling - LSHTM, UK, deadline 5 Jan 2020
PhD Studentship 'A novel pulmonary fluid dynamic tool for early diagnosis of tuberculosis' - University of Brighton, UK, deadline 17 Jan 2020

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

Publications:

Bridging the gap between efficacy trials and model-based impact evaluation for new tuberculosis vaccines in Nature Communications
Tuberculosis vaccines: Rising opportunities in PloS Medicine
Heterologous prime-boost vaccination against tuberculosis with recombinant Sendai virus and DNA vaccines in Journal of Molecular Medicine
Clarifying the meaning of clinically meaningful benefit in clinical research in JAMA

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