Prof Satya Parida

Prof Satya Parida DVM, PhD, leads the Vaccine Differentiation Group at The Pirbright Institute and has 19 years of experience studying peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) and foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) biology including vaccine efficacy and immune responses. Satya is a veterinarian and started his research working on “protein-protein interactions of morbilliviruses” as a Wellcome Trust Travelling Research Fellow in early 2000 at the Institute for Animal Health, UK. Satya is an adjunct professor to Murdoch University Australia, a visiting professor at Royal Veterinary College (RVC), London University and Jenner investigator at the University of Oxford. He has joint PhD students at Murdoch, RVC and University of Oxford.

Recently Satya has coordinated at least three international grants (EUBBSRC Anihwa, BBSRC/DFID CIDLID and DBT-BBSRC FADH) on improving FMDV and PPRV vaccines and understanding early events of Pathogenesis of PPRV. The establishment of a reverse genetics system for PPR virus and using this technique to develop live attenuated PPR DIVA vaccines and DIVA tests are two major recent achievements of Satya in DBT-BBSRC FADH grant.

Further, in the Anihwa and ICAR project, a recent discovery that PPR virus replicates initially in pharyngeal tonsils, and not in epithelial cells as previously thought, is revolutionary and will open up further studies on the early pathogenesis of PPR. In both the CIDLID grant and BBSRC follow-on grant Satya has improved the duration of FMD vaccines.

In an Innovate UKRI grant currently Satya is collaborating with an UK based industry to develop molecular differential diagnosis for PPR and FMD in the field. Satya has also recently won funding from the Gates foundation through GALVMED to carry out a PPR stabilized vaccine study in Kenya.

Satya has published more than 135 peer reviewed publications on PPR and FMD. For details please see his ORCID ID and Researcher ID.