Training Grant Recipients
VALIDATE training grants are open to all Associate members, to enable them to take advantage of a training opportunity that will help progress their careers. You can find out more about our grants, and how to apply, on our training grants page.
2025
Dr Menberework Chanyalew
Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Ethiopia
For a laboratory exchange at Africa Health Research Institute, South Africa
Awarded June 2025
Dr Sabella Kiprono
Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kenya
To present research at the 4th International Caparica Conference on Leishmaniasis 2025, Portugal
Awarded June 2025
Dr Mathulo Mathabiso Shauli
Walter Sisulu University, South Africa
For a laboratory exchange at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa
Awarded March 2025
Dr Harindra Sathkumara
James Cook University, Australia
For a laboratory exchange at University of Chicago, USA
Awarded March 2025
Dr Lam Nguyen-Ho
University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
To present research at the 10th World Melioidosis Congress, Australia
Awarded September 2024 (not taken up)
Dr Martha Zewdie
University of Oxford, UK
For a laboratory exchange at Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI), Ethiopia
Awarded July 2024
Dr Getnet Worku
Jigjiga University, Ethiopia
For a laboratory exchange at University of Georgia, USA
Awarded May 2024 (not taken up)
Dr Musse Girma Abdela
Addis Ababa University, Aklilu Lemma Institute of Pathobiology, Ethiopia
For a laboratory exchange at University of Georgia, USA
Awarded May 2024
Dr Menberework Chanyalew
AHRI, Ethiopia
For a laboratory exchange at University of Oxford, UK
Awarded October 2023
Dr Pavan Kumar
ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, India
To present research at the 2023 Union Conference on Lung Health, France
Awarded August 2023
Dr ThankGod Onuoha
Novena University, Nigeria
To present research at the 17th Vaccine Congress in Scotland
Awarded August 2023
Dr Menberework Chanyalew
AHRI, Ethiopia
To attend the 2023 European Advanced Course on Immunology in France
Awarded August 2023 (not taken up)
Assoc Prof Kiran Afshan
Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan
For a laboratory exchange to University of Leicester, UK
Awarded July 2023
Dr Olayinka Osuolale
Elizade University, Nigeria
To participate in the BSI 'Omic data analysis and visualisation using R course
Awarded February 2023
Dr Zaynab Mousavian
Karolinska Institute, Sweden
For a laboratory exchange at University of California, San Francisco
Awarded February 2023
Dr Chelsea Davis
Aberystwyth University, UK
Lab exchange at INRA, France
Awarded January 2023 (not taken up)
Dr Sirjan Bastola
Tribhuvan University, Nepal
To join the Clinical Vaccine Development & Biomanufacturing Course at University of Oxford, UK
Awarded September 2022
