The Pirbright Institute has received an award worth up to $2.6 million to develop proof-of-concept tools that could prevent mosquitoes from transmitting a broad range of viruses. The project forms part of DARPA’s Preventing Emerging Pathogenic Threats (PREEMPT) programme, which aims to predict and...
Dr Pip Beard’s research is focused on the control and prevention of animal diseases caused by large DNA viruses . Her group concentrates on African swine fever and lumpy skin disease, two viral diseases which have severe impacts across the globe on the welfare of livestock and the people that rely...
New research led by scientists at The Pirbright Institute has shown how an influenza virus protein, called PB1-F2, is able to shut down two pathways of the chicken immune response to increase the length of time the virus can be transmitted. The PB1-F2 protein of influenza viruses is an accessory...
Veterinary researchers from around the world came together at this year’s joint UK & International Veterinary Vaccinology Network Conference on the 9-10 January 2019 with the aim of improving vaccines for livestock and zoonotic diseases both in the UK and internationally. Over 200 participants...
The potential for novel animal pathogens to emerge and ‘spill over’ into humans continues to cause global concern. Professor Munir Iqbal , Head of the Avian Influenza Virus research group at The Pirbright Institute, is among the international experts that have formed The One Heath Poultry Hub,...
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