Weekly round-up #263
Welcome New Members
VALIDATE is pleased to welcome 11 new members. Click on their profile and get in touch to form your next research collaboration.
- Mr Hubert Senanu Ahor is based at Heinrich Heine University, Germany.
- Asst Prof Laura Matarazzo is based at the Catholic University of Portugal, Portugal.
- Ms Natasha Pillay is based at the Perinatal HIV Research Unit, South Africa.
- Dr Deepika Nag is based at Seattle Children’s Research Institute (SCRI), USA.
- Mr MR Varshith is based at Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), India.
- Ms Jaya Dhungana is based at LSHTM, UK, and GLOHMED, Nepal.
- Ms Sangita Dey is based at Cellworks Life Research Pvt Ltd, India.
- Dr Madhurima Roy is based at IPGMER, India.
- Ms Swati Rani is based at the ICAR–National Institute of Veterinary Epidemiology and Disease Informatics, India.
- Ms Sana Hassan is based at Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India.
- Mr Abay Atnafu Ayele is based at the University of Gondar, Ethiopia.
VALIDATE now has over 600 members and continues to grow. If you know a colleague who would benefit from VALIDATE membership, tell them to join today - www.validate-network.org/joining-validate
- MRC Infections and immunity partnership - UK-based research into infectious human disease and disorders of the human immune system - deadline 11 May 2023
- China UK One Health research for epidemic preparedness and AMR - Opportunity to support China-UK research teams in the field of One Health research for epidemic preparedness and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) - deadline 7 June 2023
- Future Rural Africa: Female Researcher’s Grants - Grants is to promote African female researchers at all stages of their careers - deadline 30 March 2024
Find a full list of all relevant external funding on our external funding page.
Training Opportunities and Events:
- Post-doctoral Research Assistant, Royal Veterinary College, London UK, deadline 18 May 2023
- Professor in Infectious Diseases, University of Keele, UK, deadline 23 May 2023
- Reader / Professor in Infectious Diseases, University of Keele, UK, deadline 23 May 2023
Find more event opportunities on our Training and Events pages.
- Professor in Infectious Diseases, University of Keele, UK, Deadline 23 May 2023
Other relevant career opportunities are on our jobs page.
- Live attenuated Leishmania infantum centrin deleted mutant (LiCen-/-) as a novel vaccine candidate: A field study on safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy against canine leishmaniasis, Zarei Z et al, in Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
- mRNA vaccines: a new opportunity for malaria, tuberculosis and HIV, VALIDATE members Laura Matarazzo and Paulo Bettencourt, in Frontiers in Immunology
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Antigen-specific B cells direct T follicular-like helper cells into lymphoid follicles to mediate Mycobacterium tuberculosis control, Swanson RV et al, in Nature Immunology
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 reported on white men dominating Super PI applications at the NIH and the Working Group on TB shared a petition calling on world leaders to support TB vaccine research. VALIDATE SAB member Danny Altman won at the BSI Awards, we shared a report on the Irish Badger TB programme, and the South African Government provided $10 million for mRNA TB vaccine research. Wiley Research released an open-access resource functional characterisation of predicting genomic elements from M.tb transcriptomic data and TB New Daily share a report on a new TB research breakthrough. Keep up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter.
Published: 25 April 2023
