Funded Training Grants
VALIDATE training grants are open to all Associate members, to enable them to take advantage of a training opportunity that will help progress their careers. You can find out more about our grants, and how to apply, on our training grants page.
Dr Chelsea Davis
Aberystwyth University, UK
To undertake training in the use of the PCLS model at Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), France
Awarded January 2023
Dr Sirjan Bastola
Tribhuvan University, Nepal
To participate in the Clinical Vaccine Development and Biomanufacturing Course at the University of Oxford, UK
Awarded September 2022
Dr Supram Hosuru Subramanya
Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Nepal
For a laboratory exchange at the University of Southampton, UK
Awarded September 2022
Dr Margaret Nolan
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
To attend workshops in the USA
Awarded July 2022
Dr Nastassja Kriel
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
To attend MaxQuant Summer School, Spain
Awarded July 2022
Dr Naomi Daniels
University of OtagoNew Zealand
For a laboratory exchange at the Colorado State University, USA
Awarded March 2022
Dr Khushboo Borah
University of Surrey, UK
To attend Microbiology Society workshops at Annual Conference
Awarded March 2021
Dr Santosh Kumar
University of Birmingham, UK
For zebrafish facility training
Awarded July 2020 (not taken up due to COVID pandemic)
Dr Gabriele Pollara
UCL, UK
For a laboratory exchange at the University of York
Awarded July 2020 (not taken up due to COVID pandemic)
Dr Jose Maria Lemme
University of Maryland Baltimore, USA
For a laboratory exchange with Prof Mark Chambers, University of Surrey UK
Awarded March 2020 (not taken up due to COVID pandemic)
Dr Isadora dos Santos Lima
FIOCRUZ, Brazil
For attendance at the ECVP/ESVP Summer School in Veterinary Pathology
Awarded March 2020
Dr Kiran Afshan
Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan
For attendance of the VALIDATE Immunometabolism Workshop, UK
Awarded March 2020 (workshop cancelled due to COVID pandemic)
Dr Abhishek Mandal
ICMR-Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, India
For attendance of the VALIDATE Immunometabolism Workshop, UK
Awarded March 2020 (workshop cancelled due to COVID pandemic)
Dr Robert Shey
University of Buea, Cameroon
For attendance of the VALIDATE Immunometabolism Workshop, UK
Awarded March 2020 (workshop cancelled due to COVID pandemic)
Dr Fatoumatta Darboe
MRC Unit, The Gambia
For attendance of the EMBL-EBI Bioinformatics Summer SchoolAwarded November 2019 (not taken up)
Dr Victoria Humbert
University of Southampton, UK
For a laboratory exchange at Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Awarded November 2019
Dr Godwin Kwakye-Nuako
University of Cape Coast, Ghana
For a laboratory exchange and training at LSHTM, UK
Awarded July 2019 (not taken up due to COVID pandemic)
Dr Shraddha Siwakoti
B. P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Nepal
For a laboratory exchange and training at University of Leicester with Prof Andrea Cooper
Awarded July 2019
Dr Amanda Gibson
RVC, UK
For a laboratory exchange at the Francis Crick Institute, UK
Awarded March 2019
Dr Eduardo Ramos Sanchez
USP, Brazil
For a laboratory exchange at the University of Oxford, UK
Awarded March 2019
Dr Khushboo Borah
University of Surrey, UK
To attend a training course and lab exchange at ICL, UK
Awarded November 2018
Dr Elena Stylianou
University of Oxford, UK
To attend Keystone Symposium 2019
Awarded November 2018
Dr Paulo Bettencourt
University of Oxford, UK
Lab visit and training at Einstein College of Medicine, USA
Awarded November 2018 (not taken up)
Dr Olayinka Osuolale
Elizade University, Nigeria
To attend ADVAC course
Awarded November 2018 (not taken up)
Dr Raph Hamers
EOCRU, Indonesia
To attend GCRF Network Vaccinology Course, Thailand
Awarded September 2018
Van Le
OUCRU, Vietnam
To attend GCRF Network Vaccinology Course, Thailand
Awarded September 2018
Dr Erni Nelwan
University of Indonesia, Indonesia
To attend GCRF Network Vaccinology Course, Thailand
Awarded September 2018
Nkemngo Francis Nongley
University of Buea, Cameroon
To attend GCRF Network Vaccinology Course, Thailand
Awarded September 2018 (not taken up)
Farah Isse Mumin
Red Sea University, Somalia
To attend GCRF Network Vaccinology Course, Thailand
Awarded September 2018
Dr Laura Sibley
PHE, UK
To attend GCRF Network Vaccinology Course, Thailand
Awarded September 2018 (not taken up)
Dr Djibril Wade
IRESSEF, Senegal
To attend Human & Veterinary Vaccinology course, UKAwarded June 2018
Dr Patrice Mawa
UVRI Uganda
To attend flow cytometry training at the University of York, UK
Awarded February 2018
Dr Leopold Tientcheu
MRC Unit, The Gambia
Laboratory exchange at University of Oxford, UK, for MGIA training
Awarded February 2018
Dr Iman Satti
University of Oxford, UK
Lab exchange at NIH, USA
Awarded February 2018 (not taken up due to lab fire)
Dr Lucia Biffar
University of Oxford, UK
To attend a Clinical Vaccine Development and Biomanufacturing course
Awarded November 2017
Dr Andrea Zelmer, LSHTM, UK
To attend a workshop on 3D whole organ (mesoscopic) imaging
Awarded November 2017
