Weekly round-up #70
Weekly round-up #70
The week following Easter is 'World Immunisation Week' and the world has been highlighting and celebrating the importance of vaccines, bringing plenty of exciting articles, tweets, and blog posts. Some of the highlights we spotted include:
A collaboration between Gavi, Zipline, the Ministry of Health, Ghana, the UPS Foundation, Pfizer Inc. and Gates Foundation Afirca are now delivering vaccines in Ghana via drones; a look at University of Dundee's new LifeSpace Gallery leishmaniasis science-art exhibition; LSHTM releasing a range of podcasts with subjects including tuberculosis; a great New York Times piece on the growing peril of drug-resistant infections;
We've had some new VALIDATE Affiliate members join us, so welcome to: Caroline Vilas Boas de Melo (FIOCRUZ, Brazil) and Dr Stanley Onuoha (Ebonyi State University, Nigeria).
For the last month Dr Eduardo Ramos Sanchez from the University of Sao Paulo has been visiting Prof Helen McShane's TB vaccine group at University of Oxford, as part of his VALIDATE training grants, from which he has greatly benefited - as has the Oxford team. If you want to take advantage of the opportunity for a laboratory exchange like this, the deadline for the next round of training grants is 24 June 2019. For more information and to apply click here.
The deadline for our VALIDATE Research Data Analyst position has now passed. Thank you to those who applied and good luck in the selection process!
Finally, and excitingly, it's not long now until our Annual Meeting registration will open for 2019! Keep an eye on our Twitter and website meeting webpage to stay updated.
