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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…

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IAH Director announces retirement

The Institute for Animal Health has announced that due to ill health, Professor Martin Shirley who had announced his retirement from 30 June 2011, will now retire on 31 October 2010. Professor David Paton will take over as Acting Director, with effect from 1 November 2010.

IAH to analyse threat posed to UK livestock by insect and tick-borne viruses

The Pirbright Institute, in partnership with the Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA), has been awarded £90,000 by Defra to analyse the threat posed to UK livestock and horses from insect- and tick-borne viruses, and the UK's capability to respond to these threats. These viruses are highly…

IAH's Director awarded Honorary Associateship of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons

Professor Martin Shirley CBE, Director of the Institute for Animal Health, has been made an Honorary Associate of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. The award was made by outgoing RCVS President Professor Sandy Trees during the Society' annual general meeting this month in London. The…

IAH Director, Professor Martin Shirley, awarded CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours

Professor Martin Shirley, Director of the Institute for Animal Health since July 2006, has been awarded a CBE for Services to Science in the 2010 Queen’s Birthday Honours. His research on the protozoan parasite Eimeria, a major cause of poor health and performance in chickens, led him to develop the…

Professor Mark Stevens talks about E. coli O157

The IAH’s Professor Mark Stevens (pictured being filmed) stars in, and wrote the script for, a short film made by the BBC on the subject of the bacterium Escherichia coli O157. Although the guts of all of us contain types of E. coli that are harmless, the O157 type produces a toxin that can cause…

IAH Bioinformatics Group contributes to analysis of zebra finch genome

The zebra finch is a fascinating bird that can learn songs, making it a fantastic model to study learning, memory, neuroscience and the evolution of the brain. Research in this area will have an impact on important human issues such as how we learn and communicate, how we form long and short term…

IAH Director, Professor Martin Shirley, awarded CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours

The Wellcome Trust has awarded £1.3M to the IAH and collaborators to investigate the translation of fundamental research into novel ways of producing better foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) vaccines at a commercial level. IAH is collaborating with the Department of Structural Biology (University…

25 February 2010

Dr Walter Plowright CMG, DVSc, FRCVS, FRS has died

Walter Plowright, who contributed hugely to the control of diseases of livestock, died on February 19th, 2010, aged 86. Among his many achievements was the development of a highly successful vaccine against perhaps the greatest scourge of bovine livestock – cattle plague or rinderpest – for which he…

15 January 2010

IAH hosts an international workshop on the early pathogenesis of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV)

The Pirbright Institute, as a key member of the Global Foot-and-Mouth Research Alliance , is hosting an international workshop on the early stages of the disease process (pathogenesis) caused by FMDV. Among the 55 experts from 19 countries who are attending the meeting on the 21st and 22nd of…