Weekly round-up #152
Weekly Round-up #152
Welcome to Weekly Round-up #152. Along with our usual updates about jobs, funding, publications and events, this week we're getting involved with World NTD day - and would encourage you all to do so as well.
World NTD Day 2021
On Saturday 30 January 2021, VALIDATE will be supporting the second annual World NTD Day, highlighting the anniversary of the landmark 2012 London Declaration on NTDs and the global need to eradicate NTDs - with leishmaniasis and leprosy being particularly relevant to VALIDATE. To mark this important day, we will be active throughout the week on social media and, on the day itself, we will be doing 24 hours of tweets drawing attention to our members' amazing work in the fight against NTDs. Follow us on Twitter and take part by Tweeting about your work using the hashtag #WorldNTDDay.
- MRC Joint Global Health Trials - Call 11 Trial Development - To provide funding to generate new knowledge about interventions that will contribute to the improvement of health in low and middle-income countries – deadline 4 February 2021
- NIH Secondary Analysis of Existing Datasets for Advancing Infectious Disease Research – To support projects that utilise open-access data to address knowledge gaps in basic/clinical research of infectious disease – deadline 16 February 2021
- Future Leaders Fellowships: Round 6 - £900 million fund that is helping to establish the careers of world-class research and innovation leaders across UK business and academia – deadline 19 February 2021
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) - Provides postdoctoral Fellowships for researchers based outside Japan to conduct collaborative research activities with leading research groups at Japanese universities – deadline 10 March 2021
Find all other funding opportunities on our external funding page.
Training Opportunities and Events
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Societal Impacts of NTDs, Online Event, 15:00 GMT/ 10:00 EST 28 January 2021
- 2021 LCNTDR London Declaration on NTDs Anniversary Research Symposium, Online via Zoom, 13:00 GMT 29 January 2021
- Global Forum on TB Vaccines 2021, Virtual Conference, 20-22 April 2021
More opportunities are to be found on our Training and Events pages.
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Senior Program Officer or Program Officer, Tuberculosis, Gates Foundation, Seattle WA USA, no stated deadline
There are many more relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.
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Characterization of a new Leishmania major strain for use in a controlled human infection model, Ashwin H et al, including VALIDATE member Paul Katye, in Nature Communications
- Effect of a medical curriculum about the knowledge about immunization against tuberculosis in Jalisco Mexico, Cabrera-Pivaral CE et al, in Vacunas
- Current advances in Burkholderia vaccines development, Wang G et al including VALIDATE member Miguel Valvano, in Cells
- Therapeutic efficacy of pulmonary live tuberculosis vaccines against established asthma by subverting local immune environment, Tarancón R et al, in EBioMedcine
- Synthetic protein conjugate vaccines provide protection against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in mice, Hanna CC, in PNAS
- IFN-γ+ CD4+T cell-driven prophylactic potential of recombinant LDBPK_252400 hypothetical protein of Leishmania donovani against visceral leishmaniasis, Yadav S, Cellular Immunology
- BCG vaccine derived peptides induce SARS-CoV-2 T cell cross-reactivity, Eggenhuizen PJ et al, in medRxiv
- MTBVAC vaccination protects rhesus macaques against aerosol challenge with M. tuberculosis and induces immune signatures analogous to those observed in clinical studies, White AD et al including VALIDATE member Laura Sibley, in NPJ Vaccines
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Stronger induction of trained immunity by mucosal BCG or MTBVAC vaccination compared to standard intradermal vaccination, Vierboom MPM et al, in Cell Report Medicine
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Pulmonary MTBVAC vaccination induces immune signatures previously correlated with prevention of tuberculosis infection, Dijkman K, in Cell Reports Medicine
Check out our Publications Page for members' publications and email validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk if you have something you would like to add.
Highlights on Twitter this week:
Lots of activity in the run up to Saturday's World NTD Day, including LSHTM researcher Dr Emma Harding-Esch sharing useful information about World NTD day, the Taskforce for Global Health discussing World NTD day and Countdown on NTDs celebrating the World Health Organization’s #NTDRoadmap2030. We also promoted our upcoming BCG Then and Now lecture, while The Vaccine Confidence Project answered 101 FAQs about COVID vaccines, and WriteThatPhD publicised their guides to conceptual frameworks and how to use theory in your research. The TB Unit at Barcelona University discussed why BCG has yet to be replaced, the British Society for Immunology published a teaching resource hub for immunology educators, and The University of the Pacific celebrated alumnus and VALIDATE member Sasha Larsen Akins’ work on the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Follow @NetworkVALIDATE for all the latest news and for our #WorldNTDDay activity.!
Published: 27 January 2021
