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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…

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Research provides ‘atlas’ for studies into pig lung immunity

A study by scientists at The Pirbright Institute and the Babraham Institute has detailed how immune cells in pigs lung change after influenza infection or vaccination. For protection against influenza in livestock or humans, it is important that a vaccine induces the right combination of immune…

14 February 2022

Pirbright’s ground-breaking research explores how pig immune system fights flu

Pirbright scientists investigate the pig’s immune response to flu and identify specific cells which are important for fighting infection and for long term protection against influenza infection. It is hoped the findings will shed more light on human response to flu and help the development of new…

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28 October 2021

Pirbright welcomes three scientific experts to head up new areas of research

Three new research groups have been established at The Pirbright Institute recently, each of which will contribute to the Institute’s mission to prevent and control viral diseases of livestock and viruses that spread from animals to people, known as zoonoses. Discover more about the scientists…