The VALIDATE Network - Vaccine development for complex intracellular neglected pathogens
MRC Clinical research training fellowship
Deadline: 12 January 2022
The funders wish to encourage high quality, innovative research on the ecological, evolutionary, and social drivers that influence the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases.
We will fund research in:
animals
humans
plants.
The central theme of submitted projects must be the quantitative or computational understanding of pathogen transmission dynamics.
BBSRC and MRC are also keen to encourage proposals with a focus on:
plant health
coronaviruses
other zoonotic pathogens.
Among the areas of particular interest for this funding opportunity are:
the role of social influences on the susceptibility of individuals or populations
multiway interactions between pathogenic and non-pathogenic organisms and their mutual hosts
the role of medical, agricultural or environmental practices on pathogen emergence and transmission
emergence of pathogens from non-pathogenic populations
host switching
evolutionary dynamics in an ecological context such as disease control interventions and drug resistance
animal and human coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2