Weekly round-up #185
Yesterday VALIDATE announced the launch of our next Fellowship grant call round. Thanks to our funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, we are able to fund 3 fellowships for the 2021 round.
VALIDATE’s Fellowships support two years’ independent scientific research, with the aim of producing initial/pilot data and a funding and experience track record that can be used by the Fellow to go on to obtain independent external funding and launch their career as a Principal Investigator and/or Group Leader.
The call is now open and closes on 15 November 2021. Find out more on the Fellowships page - www.validate-network.org/fellowships
Previous Fellowships
So far, VALIDATE has supported two Fellows and you can find out more about their project below.
- Dr Jomien Mouton, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Identification of latency associated antigens and biosignatures associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis - Dr Rachel Tanner, University of Oxford, UK
Characterising the BCG-induced antibody response to inform the design of improved vaccines against M.tuberculosis, M.leprae and M.bovis
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Women in Innovation Awards - Innovate UK, as part of UK Research and Innovation, is offering at least 20 Women in Innovation Awards to female entrepreneurs across the UK. The winners will receive a £50,000 grant and a bespoke package of mentoring, coaching and business support – deadline 13 October 2021
- Homeward Bound 7 - #TeamHB7 will welcome 100 women from around the world to this unique leadership initiative as we build towards our vision of a global collaboration of 10,000 women with a background in STEMM – deadline 14 October 2021
- NIH Secondary Analysis of Existing Datasets for Advancing Infectious Disease Research - To support projects that utilise open-access data to address knowledge gaps in basic/clinical research of infectious disease – deadline 16 October 2021
- NIH Planning Grant for Global Infectious Disease Research Training Program - To support an LMIC-US collaborative planning process that will prepare faculty and design courses and resources for a research training programme – deadline 28 October 2021
- Wellcome - Four-year PhD Studentships in Science - This scheme offers graduates outstanding training in scientific research – deadline 31 October 2021
You can find a list of all relevant external funding we've spotted for our members on our external funding page.
Training Opportunities and Events:
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Webinar for future New Investigator applicants to Responsive Mode, Online, 25 October 2021 - 11:00 – 12:00 BST
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ESID 2021 Online Symposium, Online, 27 September 2021
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12th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, Online (from Bergan, Norway), 28 September
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Innovation for NTDs in the Next Decade: The Critical role of African Leadership, Online, 29 September 2021
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UCL-TB Open Seminar, Online, 30 September 2021
- Director of the Tuberculosis Department, The Union, deadline 30 September 2021
- Postdoctoral Positions in Virology and Immunology, Cleveland Clinic, OH, United States, no stated deadline
- Vaccine Hesitancy Post-doc, AHRI, South Africa, deadline 30 September 2021
- Programme Manager, LEPRA, UK, deadline 1 October 2021
- Clinical Research Coordinator Melioidosis, InBios, Seattle WA, USA, no stated deadline
- Chief, Basic Immunology Branch, NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Bethesda, MD, United States, no stated deadline
There are many more relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.
- Distinct blood transcriptomic signature of treatment in latent tuberculosis infected individuals at risk of developing active disease, Burel JG et al, in Tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis in times of COVID-19, Zimmer AJ et al, in Journal of Epidemiol Community Health
- recombinant bovine adenoviral mucosal vaccine expressing mycobacterial antigen-85B generates robust protection against tuberculosis in mice, Arshad Khan A et al, in Cell Reports Medicine
- Cheap and Commonplace: Making the Case for BCG and gd T Cells in COVID-19, Morrison AL, et al, in Frontiers in Immunology
- 100 years of Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Guérin, Lang C et al,in the Lancet Infectious Diseases
Check out our Publications Page for members' publications and email VALIDATE@ndm.ox.ac.uk if you have a paper you would like us to include.
Highlights on Twitter this week:
Nature Careers shared articles about the importance of mentoring, the threat of research plagiarism posed by AI, and a new form of CV for researchers. WriteThatPhD shared tips for using digital tools for literature reviews, defining and communicating research, and choosing a research methodology. We shared some of our online activities that some members might have missed including our animated Leprosy Video, our school's events, our seminars, our VALID8 interview series, and BCG100. Stop TB Canada released a video about the lack of effective TB Vaccines, EDCTP were getting ready their session on African health at today's UN General Assembley, and the BSI tweeted a reminder about their Immunology Teaching Awards. Stay up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following @NetworkVALIDATE on twitter.
Published: 22 September 2021
