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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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Pirbright and Marwell Zoo show how climate change could increase disease risk in the UK

The good health of animals is Marwell Zoo’s highest priority, but how can Marwell protect its residents against exotic diseases? Scientists at The Pirbright Institute have helped to create an exhibit in the Zoo’s new Tropical House to explain how climate change may increase the risk of diseases…

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£3.1 million awarded for commercial foot-and-mouth disease vaccine production

Researchers in the UK, led by The Pirbright Institute, are to receive £3.1 million of investment from Wellcome and MSD Animal Health to produce a more affordable and effective vaccine that will protect animals against foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). The funding will advance commercial production of a…

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Pigs as universal flu vaccine models

Researchers from The Pirbright Institute collaborated with the University of Oxford and the National Institutes of Health, USA, to show that S-FLU, a universal flu vaccine candidate, induces different immune responses in pigs compared to ferrets, raising the possibility that the ferrets may not give…

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Pig immunology comes of age: killer T cell responses to influenza

Researchers from The Pirbright Institute, University of Bristol, Cardiff University and University of Oxford have generated tools that allow scientists to understand a vital area of the pig immune system which was previously inaccessible. The breakthrough research, described in PLOS Pathogens, used…

New insight could lead to improved methods for preventing foot-and-mouth disease

New insight into the process of interaction between foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) and host cells, could lead to the development of anti-virals capable of blocking the virus from entering cells and preventing infection. The research, a national and international collaboration, published in…

23 November 2016

Pirbright study to improve the production and supply of foot-and-mouth disease vaccine

Researchers at The Pirbright Institute have secured almost $1.5 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to fund the development of improved foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccines for East Africa. The project, headed by Dr Bryan Charleston, Interim Director and CEO of the Institute will…

Study shows persistence of FMDV is related to its virulence

A study by scientists at The Pirbright Institute – home to the UK, World and European Reference Laboratory for foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) - has shown that the persistence of specific viruses is related to their virulence in cell culture. African buffalo ( Syncerus caffer) are the primary…