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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

Pirbright reports first case of foot-and-mouth disease virus in dogs after eating infected meat

A case report filed by scientists at The Pirbright Institute details the first instance of naturally acquired foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) infection in dogs. In this highly unusual case reported in BMC Veterinary Research, FMDV was identified in a sample of heart tissue received by Pirbright…

22 January 2021

Early animal studies by Pirbright and Oxford yield promising results for new potential COVID-19 vaccine

Studies carried out by The Pirbright Institute and the University of Oxford have shown that Oxford’s new potential vaccine against COVID-19, named RBD-SpyVLP, produces a strong antibody response in mice and pigs, providing vital information for the further development of the vaccine. Although this…

Dr Don King, head of Vesicular Disease Reference Laboratories at The Pirbright Institute

02 October 2020

Science Spotlight: Dr Don King

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dWnWLH7qO0 In a world where COVID-19 has dominated the news media and redirected the attention of many scientific endeavours, it is worth remembering that there are still many other diseases which are continuously monitored to control and prevent devastating…

23 June 2020

Studies at Pirbright demonstrate two doses of Oxford University’s COVID-19 vaccine boosts immune response in pigs

The Pirbright Institute, working in collaboration with the University of Oxford, have successfully shown that two doses of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) vaccine produce a greater antibody response than a single dose in pigs. The emergence and subsequent spread of SARS-CoV-2 has caused a global…

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12 June 2020

Pirbright case study shows pooled milk can be used for foot-and-mouth disease surveillance

A case study undertaken by scientists at The Pirbright Institute is the first to confirm that milk obtained from in-line milk samplers on a large-scale dairy farm can be used to detect circulating foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) in cattle. Previous work carried out by the team had shown that it…

09 April 2020

Pirbright supports UK’s effort to ramp up diagnostic testing for COVID-19

The Pirbright Institute, which is home to several World Reference Laboratories for viral diseases of livestock, is using its equipment and expertise in diagnostics and disease surveillance to support COVID-19 testing in the UK. The Institute is helping in three key areas, all of which will enable…

06 March 2020

Even small acts can help empower women

For International Women’s Day, Dr Anna Ludi reflects on how small acts to support women in science can empower them to take their careers to the next level. According to the International Women’s Day committee this is a day that “marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality”. Sitting…

01 November 2019

One Health Day: Pirbright research to protect animals and humans

One Health Day, celebrated on 3 November each year, raises awareness around the need for research to join across many disciplines to solve the world’s critical health challenges. The One Health agenda advocates that scientists consider how animal, human and plant health are interlinked and to apply…

tanzanian woman milking cow for foot-and-mouth disease testing

12 March 2019

Pirbright demonstrate that testing milk samples could enhance foot-and-mouth disease surveillance in the field

A follow on study by scientists at The Pirbright Institute and the University of Glasgow has demonstrated that milk samples collected in the field can be used successfully to recognise cattle infected with foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV). This method was used in Tanzania, where the disease is…

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Pirbright reports first case of foot-and-mouth disease virus in dogs after eating infected meat

Early animal studies by Pirbright and Oxford yield promising results for new potential COVID-19 vaccine

Science Spotlight: Dr Don King

Studies at Pirbright demonstrate two doses of Oxford University’s COVID-19 vaccine boosts immune response in pigs

Pirbright case study shows pooled milk can be used for foot-and-mouth disease surveillance

Pirbright supports UK’s effort to ramp up diagnostic testing for COVID-19

Even small acts can help empower women

One Health Day: Pirbright research to protect animals and humans

Pirbright demonstrate that testing milk samples could enhance foot-and-mouth disease surveillance in the field