Weekly round-up #164

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VALIDATE Industry Seminar: Addressing Pathogen and Human Diversity

Our next seminar with VALIDATE’s Industry Partners will be with Graham Clarke, Chair of immBio, a company developing next-generation vaccines against serious infectious disease. Graham will talk about how variable human immune responses highlights the need in vaccinology to identify and develop technologies that are able to address diversity as well as immBio’s focus on a multiple-protein approach. This seminar is open to all, so please share details with any colleagues who might be interested.

The event will take place on Wednesday, 27 April 2021 at 14:00 BST and you can register online

 

VALIDATE website update - New Members Start Here.

We have been making updates to the VALIDATE website and now have a page where new members can more easily start their VALIDATE journey. The "Start Here" page has details of the resources and information available to members and existing members should also check out the page as VALIDATE has significantly expanded the resources we offer over the years - www.validate-network.org/new-members

Funding:

You can find all other funding opportunities on our external funding page.

Training Opportunities and Events:




More opportunities can be found on our Training and Events pages.


Job Opportunities:

There are many more relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.



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:

Our hosts a the Jenner Institute shared the BSI’s infographic on how vaccine works and the UN Food and Agriculture Agency held an animal disease update. Write That PhD had some advice for framing a research storyline, delivering oral presentations, and writing research design sections. The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, the Africa CDC, and the African Union Commission formed a partnership to enhance vaccine research. The Stop TB Partnership tweeted a thread introducing the Global TB Vaccine Roadmap, in the USA it is Medical Laboratory Professionals Week and we continued our #BCG100Facts with a quote from John Bunyan.

Following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter is the best way to keep up to date. You can also take part in BCG100 by using the hashtag #BG100

 

Published: 21 April 2021