Dr Basu Paudyal

Researchers at Pirbright have developed a pig respiratory coronavirus (PRCV) model which will help to understand how coronaviruses cause disease and how the immune system responds to them. Human coronaviruses such as Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS…

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…

The Pirbright Institute has generated the first pig antibodies against swine influenza (flu) that protect against infection and recognise the same parts of the flu virus as human antibodies. This indicates they could be used to develop and assess human antibody therapies and their delivery methods…

Flu vaccine research undertaken by scientists at The Pirbright Institute has demonstrated that combining two different routes of administering flu vaccine provides pigs with better protection against disease than using only one method. The findings could inform vaccination strategies for human flu…