Visiting Pirbright researcher wins L’Oréal-UNESCO award
Dr Mariatulqabtiah Abdul Razak, a visiting scientist in Pirbright’s Avian Influenza Group, has been awarded the prestigious L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award 2022 (Malaysia programme).
Dr Mariatulqabtiah Abdul Razak, a visiting scientist in Pirbright’s Avian Influenza Group, has been awarded the prestigious L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award 2022 (Malaysia programme).
As a registered charity and an independent company, The Pirbright Institute is governed by a Board of non-executive Trustee Directors. The Institute has appointed two new Trustees for 2022: Professor Deenan Pillay and Professor Mike Turner.
The new Trustees are joining the Trustee Board to broaden the expertise amongst the Board members.
Scientists at The Pirbright Institute have identified key differences in the immune response of chickens that are resistant to Marek’s disease, and those that are not.
This research could pave the way for the development of more effective vaccines against this serious disease.
In a recent paper published in Frontiers in Immunology, researchers at the Institute discovered that immune cells, known as T cells, had distinct functions depending on the susceptibility of the chickens to disease.
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