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Pirbight's Plowright building from afar with wild plants in front

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…

Close up of a pipette tip in a well of gel electrophoresis. Blue liquid is visible in the wells.

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…

cow being vaccinated at the Compton site, Pirbright Institute

16 August 2018

£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…

09 August 2018

Pirbright scientists help combat African swine fever - a disease with no vaccine

African swine fever (ASF) continues to spread throughout eastern and central Europe, and China has now recorded its first outbreak. China is home to over half the world’s pig population (around 500 million pigs) so any potential spread throughout China and neighbouring countries would be devastating…

08 August 2018

Milk from bulk storage tanks could be used for foot-and-mouth disease testing

Researchers at The Pirbright Institute and the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory on Plum Island USA, have shown it could be possible to detect foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) in pooled milk samples stored in bulk tanks. These…

06 August 2018

Rural poverty in eastern Africa could be reduced with foot-and-mouth disease vaccination strategy

Research undertaken by scientists at The Pirbright Institute and the University of Glasgow has shown that a targeted vaccination programme against foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) could contribute to alleviating poverty in eastern Africa. Livestock production losses due to FMD are estimated to be around…

27 July 2018

Research could lead to low cost infectious bronchitis vaccine production

Infectious bronchitis is the most economically important infectious disease affecting chickens in the UK, and remains a major problem in the global poultry industry despite the existence of many different vaccines. Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) vaccines are currently produced in hen's eggs—a…

10 July 2018

At The Pirbright Institute Dr Mark Fife is committed to bee conservation

To bee, or not to bee? It’s not really a question for Dr Mark Fife, leader of the Genetics and Genomics group at The Pirbright Institute, who has installed two hives on site and whose honey bees (Apis mellifera) produced 42 pounds of honey in the first crop this summer, about enough for 80 small…

09 July 2018

Pirbright lead €5.6 million consortium to DEFEND against African swine fever and lumpy skin disease

African swine fever (ASF) and lumpy skin disease (LSD) represent an immediate and serious threat to the pig and cattle industries in Europe and eastern and central Asia. The need for a more collaborative approach to tackle these diseases has been recognised by the European Union Horizon 2020…

06 July 2018

Pirbright scientists are developing vaccine candidates for animal viruses that cause human disease

World Zoonoses Day on 6 July is dedicated to raising awareness and understanding of zoonoses – diseases that spread from animals to humans. Zoonoses are a focus of research at The Pirbright Institute, a national research centre that works to enhance the UK’s capability to contain, control and…

02 July 2018

Novel sampling method can detect foot-and-mouth disease in absence of clinical infection

Surveillance of livestock and their environment for the presence of FMDV is an important part of preventing outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), a disease which creates a socio-economic burden for the farming industry and smallholder or subsistence farmers alike. Researchers at The Pirbright…

02 July 2018

Novel sampling method can detect foot-and-mouth disease in absence of clinical infection

21 June 2018

Breakthrough could make the common cold not so common

Researchers at The Pirbright Institute have helped in the development of a new molecule to treat a range of viruses including the common cold. In addition to the days of work lost due to illness, the common cold can cause complications in respiratory illnesses such as asthma and cystic fibrosis. The…

National Insect week swat or swipe right

19 June 2018

Swat or swipe-right? Insect sex lives revealed

Dr Simon Carpenter, Head of the Entomology group at Pirbright, swipes right on some stars of the insect dating scene for National Insect Week. The weird and wonderful sex lives of our chitinous cousins have long held a fascination with both the public and entomologists. A cynic might say this is…

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

Pirbright scientists help combat African swine fever - a disease with no vaccine

Milk from bulk storage tanks could be used for foot-and-mouth disease testing

Rural poverty in eastern Africa could be reduced with foot-and-mouth disease vaccination strategy

Research could lead to low cost infectious bronchitis vaccine production

At The Pirbright Institute Dr Mark Fife is committed to bee conservation

Pirbright lead €5.6 million consortium to DEFEND against African swine fever and lumpy skin disease

Pirbright scientists are developing vaccine candidates for animal viruses that cause human disease

Novel sampling method can detect foot-and-mouth disease in absence of clinical infection

Novel sampling method can detect foot-and-mouth disease in absence of clinical infection

Breakthrough could make the common cold not so common

Swat or swipe-right? Insect sex lives revealed