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15 November 2024

Pirbright welcomes two successful Doctoral Landscape Awards in life and environmental sciences

The Pirbright Institute is celebrating two major doctoral training initiatives funded by the UKRI Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), each offering unique opportunities for the next generation of scientists. These programmes…

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14 November 2024

Nurturing emerging leaders in science

Two talented Pirbright researchers have been awarded with Strategic Career Development Awards (SCDAs) to advance their research and career trajectories. Dr Rory Fortes de Brito, a Senior Postdoctoral researcher in the Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) Immunology group and Dr Lidia…

Flock of orange chickens pecking at dusty ground

12 January 2023

New tools to help understand infectious bursal disease virus variants developed by Pirbright researchers

Researchers at The Pirbright Institute have developed new tools and techniques to determine the breadth of immune responses produced by vaccines against different variants of infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV). IBDV is a major threat to the productivity of the global commercial poultry industry…

Dr Yaoyao Zhang at CN Bio using the Physiomimix technology

19 November 2020

Science Spotlight: Bringing home new technologies

After four weeks of intensive training, Dr Yaoyao Zhang departed CN Bio Innovations, a Cambridge-based bioengineering company, ready to incorporate new technology and skills into her own research at The Pirbright Institute. Dr Zhang’s training involved learning how CN Bio’s PhysioMimix™ cell culture…

22 January 2020

Scientists working on pig and poultry diseases visit Pirbright

On 15 January 2020 The Pirbright Institute hosted Newton Fund Swine and Poultry Research Initiative delegates from the UK, China, Thailand and the Philippines. The projects funded through the initiative have been underway for almost two years and the meeting served as part of a midway point workshop…

15 November 2019

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funds development of Pirbright’s Livestock Antibody Hub supporting animal and human health

Researchers from The Pirbright Institute have been awarded US $5.5 million by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to establish a Livestock Antibody Hub aimed at improving animal and human health globally. The ambitious programme of work will see extensive collaboration between multiple UK research…

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04 October 2019

UK-China avian disease conference will help enhance food security, says Pirbright scientist

Researchers from The Pirbright Institute and several Chinese institutes gathered in Zhengzhou, China between 23 and 25 September 2019 to attend the annual UK-China Centre of Excellence for Research on Avian Diseases (CERAD) conference. The event also included an opening ceremony that welcomed the…

11 September 2019

Pirbright partners with ECO Animal Health to combat poultry diseases

The Pirbright Institute has entered into a worldwide exclusive partnership with ECO Animal Health Ltd (ECO), a wholly owned subsidiary of ECO Animal Health Group plc, on two new projects to combat significant diseases of poultry. The first project, led by Professor Venugopal Nair on the development…

08 January 2019

Pirbright scientists share new protocol for creating vaccines that target multiple poultry diseases

Researchers at The Pirbright Institute have published their methods for creating a vaccine that protects against Marek’s disease and infectious bursal disease (IBD) using CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system in the video journal JoVE. Both viruses cause highly infectious diseases of poultry and cause…

22 January 2018

Promising results in search for a more efficient and effective vaccine against Marek’s disease

Scientists at The Pirbright Institute have been encouraged by the results from a potential new vaccine candidate against Marek’s disease (MD). Using a recombinant (new combinations of genetic material) adenovirus which carries a single gene from a virulent strain of Marek’s disease virus, they are…

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Pirbright welcomes two successful Doctoral Landscape Awards in life and environmental sciences

Nurturing emerging leaders in science

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New tools to help understand infectious bursal disease virus variants developed by Pirbright researchers

Science Spotlight: Bringing home new technologies

Scientists working on pig and poultry diseases visit Pirbright

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funds development of Pirbright’s Livestock Antibody Hub supporting animal and human health

UK-China avian disease conference will help enhance food security, says Pirbright scientist

Pirbright partners with ECO Animal Health to combat poultry diseases

Pirbright scientists share new protocol for creating vaccines that target multiple poultry diseases

New vaccine technique targets multiple poultry diseases

Pirbright scientist wins prestigious poultry research award

GM technology unlocks potential for new generation of poultry vaccines

Promising results in search for a more efficient and effective vaccine against Marek’s disease