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Researchers from The Pirbright Institute, led by Head of the Avian Viral Diseases Programme, Professor Venugopal Nair, are to be part of a £6.2M BBSRC-funded project to develop rapid responses to emerging poultry viruses. The funding boost will also help to establish the next generation of poultry…

This weekend, pupils from Pirbright Village Primary School, Pirbright Parish Council and more than 120 other visitors from the local community were able to glimpse behind the scenes at The Pirbright Institute’s new high biocontainment facilities – an over £100 million project funded by the UK…

What? From 04th October 2012 The Institute for Animal Health will be renamed The Pirbright Institute.. Why? We are creating a state-of-the-art Institute on a single campus at Pirbright, Surrey, UK. The Institute will continue to carry out its world leading surveillance and research into virus…

Researchers at the Royal Veterinary College, in collaboration with colleagues at Pirbright, have confirmed that Schmallenberg virus is still circulating in the UK as the current midge season approaches its peak. Tests were carried out on around 150 cattle and over 1000 sheep belonging to the Royal…

Researchers at the Institute for Animal Health have been awarded £680K by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), which also awards strategic funding to IAH, to sequence and study the genome of a biting midge that is responsible for spreading serious viral diseases. There…

The world reference laboratory for foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) at Pirbright has been acknowledged by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN) and OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health) as the centre of global expertise on research, surveillance and diagnostics for FMD. Funding of…

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…

A talented early career researcher was awarded the Walter and Dorothy Plowright Young Researchers Prize for veterinary research on Friday (27 April 2012) during the 425th meeting of the Veterinary Research Club in Pirbright at the Institute for Animal Health. The prize is named after Dr Walter…

When microscopy had its first heyday in the 17th Century, it opened up a new world of cells, plant structures and the complexity of human physiology; the microscope led the discoveries and sparked a revolution in science. Now is the time that bioimaging is having, perhaps, a second bite at the…

Earlier this month the Poultry Health Course brought together scientists with technical staff, veterinary surgeons and others wishing to learn more about infectious diseases in the context of poultry management. The course supports the necessary skills for excellent animal welfare in the poultry…

Researchers at the Institute for Animal Health have examined a new type of vaccination regime that protects cattle against foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). This regime features the use of a DNA vaccine approach and the experimental results show that such vaccines have the potential, with further…

Representatives from the NFU toured the Institute for Animal Health this week to hear of progress in understanding Schmallenberg virus (SBV). Among the delegation touring IAH, the Institute for Animal Health at Pirbright in Surrey, was NFU president Peter Kendall, NFU vice president Adam Quinney and…