Weekly round-up #207
Watch Now - VALIDATE Workshop: Writing Research Grant Proposals: Last Wednesday, Prof Rajko Reljic provided attendees with a perspective on how to identify the most appropriate funding opportunities and shared some advice on how to write successful proposals to support their research. 42 VALIDATE members attended from 33 institutions, in 24 countries!
You can access the video on the test version of the new VALIDATE Hub and you can request access here.
VALIDATE Seminar - A Vaccine for Leishmaniasis? - 6 April 2022
This seminar will be the first in our "A Vaccine for" seminar series, in which leading experts will provide an overview of the state of vaccine research for VAIDATE’s focus pathogens. This seminar will provide an excellent opportunity for researchers to learn about an area of vaccine science outside of their usual focus, in this case, leishmaniasis.
- Surveillance and diagnostics for antimicrobial resistance - This scheme provides funding for mid-career researchers from any discipline who have the potential to be international research leaders - deadline 14 June 2022
- NRF DAAD Scholarship and Fellowships - The National Research Foundation (NRF) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) award MA and PhD scholarships to South African citizens and permanent South African residents for postgraduate studies at public South African universities - deadline different for each institution
- COST Open Call, 2022 - Participants are invited to submit COST Action proposals contributing to the scientific, technological, economic, cultural or societal knowledge advancement and development of Europe. Multi- and interdisciplinary proposals are encouraged - open till 20 October 2022
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:
- World TB Day Symposium, Online via UCL TB, 24 March 2022
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WorldLeish7: Leishmaniasis and Conflict, An International Congress on Leishmania & Leishmaniasis, Cartagena, Colombia
Find more training and events opportunities on our Training and Events pages.
- Fred Hutch Associate Director, HVTN/CoVPN Laboratory Research, Seattle, WA, USA, 16 March 2022
- Leprosy Research Initiative Coordinator, Amsterdam, Netherlands, deadline 16 March 2022
- Amsterdam, Netherlands, University of Michigan, USA, deadline 19 March 2022
There are many more relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.
- Multistate Outbreak of Melioidosis Associated with Imported Aromatherapy Spray, Jay E. Gee JE et al, in NEJM
- Low expression of hypoxia-inducible factor-1α and differential expression of immune mediators during experimental infection with Leishmania (Viannia) spp, Camila Alves Mota CA et al, in Cytokine
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World TB Day 2022: Revamping and Reshaping Global TB Control Programs by Advancing Lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic, Petersen E et al, in International Journal of 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:
IAVI shared 7 voices of people who live with TB, The Global TB Forum have put the entire event online, and the Stop TB Partnership encouraged organisations to join their stakeholder network. Nature Careers share interesting articles on sexism in academia, science communication in Africa, the importance of informal learning, and the importance of collaboration for science in Kenya. Member Danny Altmann marked the grim milestone of 6 million Covid deaths and many science organizations celebrated International Women’s Day including NIHR, INASP, and Siica Immunology. We marked this important day highlighting the work of our amazing women members including our Fellows, our VALID8 interviews, and our new ECDN network. Stay up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter.
Published: 9 March 2022
