Weekly round-up #149
Weekly Round-up #149
Happy New Year! VALIDATE starts 2021 with a rather packed Weekly Round-up #149.
Our community continues to grow and there are now 413 VALIDATE members from 210 institutes across 60 countries, and we'd like to welcome our latest new members:
- Chiara Bellini Chiara Bellini is a VALIDATE Network Affiliate and PhD Student at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
- Dr Ali Bordbar is a VALIDATE Network Associate and Main Researcher, concentrating on leishmaniasis, at the Pasteur Institute of Iran
- Rita Ziem Ekekpi is a VALIDATE Network Affiliate and Biomedical Scientist at the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Ghana
- Dr Kata Horvati is a VALIDATE Network Associate and Research Associate working on TB vaccines at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
We are delighted, with the addition of Ali Bordbar, to have added Iran to the list of countries where we are represented.
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EUTOPIA-SIF Post Doctoral Fellowships - The EUTOPIA European University has announced the opening of 20 post-doctoral fellowships, within the EUTOPIA Science and Innovation Fellowships Programme (EUTOPIA-SIF) – deadline 11 January 2021
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Communicating Immunology Grants - The BSI are accepting Communicating Immunology Grant applications and welcome digital or online project ideas – first deadline 15 January 2021
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Global Learning Scholarship Program - Providing opportunities for scientists and researchers from low- and middle-income countries to access the latest ideas, science, technology and partnerships to make a positive impact on fighting global disease - throughout 2021
Training Opportunities and Events:
- Vector‑borne Diseases Surveillance, Online Course (over three weeks), 13 January 2021
- Using Artificial Intelligence to Control the Growing Epidemic of Vaccine Hesitancy and Refusal, Online via Zoom, 09:00 GMT/17:00 HKT 14 January 2021
More opportunities are to be found on our Training and Events pages.
- Principal Investigator (Mycobacterial diseases), Moredun Research Institute, Midlothian UK, deadline 18 January 2021
There are many more relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.
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Multicentric validation of indigenous molecular test Truenat™ MTB for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum samples from presumptive pulmonary tuberculosis patients in comparison with reference standards, N S Gomathi et al, in Indian Journal of Medical Research
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A non-human primate in vitro functional assay for the early evaluation of TB vaccine candidates, by VALIDATE Fellow Rachel Tanner et al, including VALIDATE Members Julia Bitencourt, Iman Satti, Helen Fletcher and Helen McShane, in NJP Vaccines
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Genomic Diversity of Burkholderia pseudomallei Isolates, Colombia, Carolina Duarte et al, including VALIDATE Member Alfredo G. Torres, in CDC
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Functional biomarker signatures of circulating T-cells and its association with distinct clinical status of leprosy patients and their respective household contacts, Ferreira Marçal PH et al, in Infectious Diseases of Poverty
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Glycan–glycan interactions determine Leishmania attachment to the midgut of permissive sand fly vector, Hall AR et al including VALIDATE member Laith Yakob and Matthew Rogers in Chemical Science
Highlights on Twitter this week:
The British Society of Immunology won the Individual Member Association of the Year in the Association of Association Executives Awards, we were excited to flag the publication of VALIDATE's pump-priming project #28 first project paper in Chemical Science. We added Iran to our list of countries with VALIDATE members, bringing us to representation in 60 countries worldwide. The BSI tweeted an excellent infographic explaining how the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine works, and Joanna Ehrlich explained the amazing breakthrough we could see if TB vaccine research was funded like the COVID-19 programmes. The Vaccine Confidence Project shared an article on mRNA vaccines, and CIDRI-Africa Wellcome Centre highlighted the excellent work of VALIDATE member Dr Suraj Parihar. Finally, the BSI posted their final issue of Immunology News in 2020, published an excellent what’s in a vaccine blog post, and shared an article about how terrifying and incredible 2020 was for immunologists. Follow @NetworkVALIDATE for all this and more in 2021!
Published: 6 January 2021
