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Specialist science facilities

The cutting edge research undertaken at The Pirbright Institute is enabled by a range of highly specialised scientific and animal facilities in both high and low containment environments.

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Pirbright poultry disease scientist nominated for Newton Prize

Professor Venugopal Nair OBE, Head of the Viral Oncogenesis group at Pirbright is among the shortlisted nominees for the Newton Prize. The award celebrates outstanding international research partnerships and the £1 million prize will be divided between four winning research…

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How Pirbright is working to protect our pigs against African swine fever and what you can do to help

African swine fever (ASF) is a deadly disease of pigs and wild boar, it does not affect people. ASF is currently threatening the world’s pig population. Separate outbreaks are decimating pig herds across Africa, Europe and Asia, with official figures from the the Food and…

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How Pirbright is working to protect our pigs against African swine fever and what you can do to help

African swine fever (ASF) is a deadly disease of pigs and wild boar, it does not affect people. ASF is currently threatening the world’s pig population. Separate outbreaks are decimating pig herds across Africa, Europe and Asia, with official figures from the the Food and…

Collaborating opportunities

Our facilities and capabilities provide ample opportunity for collaboration with other institutes and with industry in areas such as research, data analysis, training and access to some areas on site. Our high containment facilities are internationally ground-breaking in…

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Unique collections

Our unique collections play an important role in the study of viral diseases of livestock and are utilised by scientists worldwide.

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Science Technology Platforms

The complex and unique combination of facilities, resources and expertise available at The Pirbright Institute are supported by a number of Science Technology Platforms.

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Pirbright scientists join Outreach Network for Gene Drive Research

The Pirbright Institute has become a member of the Outreach Network for Gene Drive Research, whose mission is to raise awareness with the public about the potential value of this technology. By joining the network, Pirbright scientists will help the public to understand what…

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The role of ZAP and OAS3/RNAseL pathways in the attenuation of an RNA virus with elevated frequencies of CpG and UpA dinucleotides

Zinc finger antiviral protein (ZAP) is a powerful restriction factor for viruses with elevated CpG dinucleotide frequencies. We report that ZAP similarly mediates antiviral restriction against echovirus 7 (E7) mutants with elevated frequencies of UpA dinucleotides…

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Identification and immunogenicity of African swine fever virus antigens

African swine fever (ASF) is a lethal haemorrhagic disease of domestic pigs for which there is no vaccine. Strains of the virus with reduced virulence can provide protection against related virulent strains of ASFV, but protection is not 100% and there are concerns about the…