£38M investment to protect UK livestock
Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts, will announce at 1500hrs BST today (24 May 2012) that The Pirbright Institute has been awarded £38M of strategic investment from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). This investment will enable the Institute to maintain its status as a world-leading centre for virology doing work that protects livestock from economically important diseases such as foot-and-mouth, bluetongue, and Marek's disease.