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Researchers from The Pirbright Institute are joining UCL experts in a study to understand how African swine fever virus (ASFV) enters and replicates in pig cells. Scientists at UCL’s Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, led by Professor Finn Werner and funded by…

The Pirbright Institute has joined a European Union-funded project which will study next-generation vaccines against African swine fever (ASF). Backed by support from Horizon Europe and led by the biotechnological pharmaceutical company, HIPRA, the four-year VAX4ASF project…

A unique study has highlighted an important role for ‘helper’ T-cells in enabling sheep to mount a timely protective immune response to bluetongue virus (BTV) infection. Transmitted by Culicoides biting midges, bluetongue virus has recently been detected in over 80 sheep and…

The Pirbright Institute has co-signed a Memorandum of Understanding with India’s National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NIAB) to create an animal disease and zoonosis laboratory partnership with the UK. Pirbright director, Professor Bryan Charleston, joined…

A member of the animal services team at The Pirbright Institute has been elected to the council of the UK’s leading expert body on the care of animals used in experimental studies. Lauren Cresser, Home Office Liaison Contact and Named Information Officer at The Pirbright…