Professional Development Opportunities

Private sector - Nutrition Research Manager, The Sugar Bureau, London, UK
The Sugar Bureau is offering an exciting opportunity to a Nutrition Research Manager who will be responsible for commissioning new research projects and managing the Sugar Bureau's Research Programme. This will involve keeping abreast of scientific literature in the area of sugar and health, preparing contractual agreements, and managing the research portfolio. In this role you will also be responsible for managing in house and external Sugar Bureau publications, overseeing the research database as well as liaising with the Nutrition Communications Manager to ensure timely issue of press release.

If you have excellent scientific research credentials and hold a relevant post graduate nutrition or food sciences qualification, then this opportunity may be just what you are looking for! You should also be able to demonstrate good interpersonal skills with an ability to communicate at all levels, experience of budget management, attention to detail and a proven track record of consistent achievement of objectives under pressure. Experience at a similar level in a Nutrition or food sciences role would be an advantage.

To apply, please send a copy of your CV and covering letter quoting reference NRM 01 to Dr. Alison Boyd ( alison at sugar-bureau.co.uk ) or at The Sugar Bureau, 25 Floral Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9DS

Closing date: Friday 7 May 2010

If successful, you must be available to attend an interview between 18th - 19th May 2010. We will only be able to respond to applicants who are invited to attend an interview.
For more information about the Sugar Bureau please visit http://www.sugar-bureau.co.uk/.

CPD - Exposure Assessment in Nutrition Research, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
1st International Advanced Course

30 August - 3 September 2010
Wageningen, The Netherlands

Background
One of the main objectives of nutrition research is to provide scientific evidence to support understanding of the role of diet in human health and disease. Knowledge on the performance of dietary assessment methods and biomarkers is crucial to optimally design studies in this field. Nutrition research is often blamed for poor exposure assessment that might impair its usefulness. Therefore, studies that evaluate reproducibility and validity of dietary assessment methods are important to allow proper inference. Consequently, researchers must get insight in the concepts and principles underlying evaluation studies.

Target group
The course is meant for university graduates in biomedical sciences; nutrition, epidemiology etc. Knowledge on basic statistical concepts and methods (e.g. linear regression, paired t-test, correlation, ANOVA) and study designs is assumed. The course is focused on PhD students and post-docs as well as participants from the industry and research centres.
The course language will be English.

Registration & course fee
The number of participants to the course is limited to 30.
Please register by completing the course registration form.
Note: to be able to fill in the course registration form, you need an account. To create an account, please click the link above. Don't forget to fill in the course registration form after creating your account.
The final registration date is 26 July 2010. Registrations are accepted in the order in which the course fee payment is received.
The course fee (which includes materials, coffee/tea during breaks, lunches and one dinner but does not cover accommodation) depends on the participant's affiliation:
Industry / For-Profit € 1300
University staff / Non-Profit organisations € 650
PhD students € 450
VLAG PhD students € 225
Applicants will be informed of acceptance of their registration within two weeks of the final registration date. They will then receive instructions for payment, a letter of acceptance and further course details. Cancellations may be made free of charge until, 26 July 2010. After this date the charge will be 25 % of the course fee paid or due. Substitutions may be made at any time.

More details can be found below
http://www.vlaggraduateschool.nl/courses/expo-nut.htm

Alpro Foundation Award for MSc thesis
The Alpro Foundation is calling for master theses related to food and nutrition. The Award is up to €5000.
Submission deadline 20th September 2010
More details can be found below
http://www.alprofoundation.org/awards/masters/announcements/

Deakin University's Short Course on Obesity Prevention

Registrations for the annual Obesity Prevention 5-day Course, hosted by the WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention at Deakin University and the CO-OPS Collaboration are now open.
Details
Dates: 28th June to 2nd July 2010
Content: Presenters include experts in a range of fields related to obesity prevention and practitioners involved in implementing local community-based obesity prevention programs.
Cost: $1450 early bird rate (before 4th May), $1600 full rate
Includes:

• Comprehensive manual.
• A copy of all presentations.
• Pre-course readings
• All refreshments and lunch for 5 days.
• A copy of the newly released book 'Preventing Childhood Obesity: Evidence, Policy and Practice' featuring contributions from key international experts in a wide range of issues related to childhood obesity prevention.

For program details and registration procedures visit http://www.co-ops.net.au/Pages/Public/Professional_Development.aspx

Rewards for Innovative Ideas in Global Health

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $100 million to encourage scientists worldwide to expand the pipeline of ideas to fight our greatest health challenges. Grand Challenges Explorations, which is funded by the foundation, fosters innovation in global health research. Launched in 2008, Grand Challenge Explorations grants has so far been awarded to 262 researchers from 30 countries.
This grant program is open to all disciplines. The program is open to students, tenured professors, and researchers or innovators from any organization – colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies.
The initiative uses an accelerated grant-making process with short two-page applications and no preliminary data is required. Applications are submitted online, and winning grants are chosen approximately 4 months from the submission deadline.
Initial grants of $100,000 are awarded two times a year. Successful projects have the opportunity to receive a follow-on grant of up to $1 million.
The fifth round of applications for grants is now open. For Round 5 of Grand Challenges Explorations, completion of the review process and announcment of decisions is likely in October 2010.
For more information on the topics and procedures visit http://www.grandchallenges.org/Explorations/Pages/Introduction.aspx