The Third BBSRC UK Veterinary Vaccinology Network conference was held on 16th and 17th January 2017 in Riddel Hall, Queens University, Belfast, organised by our very own partners, Prof John Dalton and Dr Krystyna Kwyklinski who are based at Queens.…
The Veterinary Vaccinology Network will be hosting its third conference on 16th and 17th January 2017 in Riddel Hall, Queen’s University, Belfast. Vaccines represent one of the most cost effective interventions for prevention, control and eradication of diseases. Veterinary vaccines…
On 20 & 21 October 2016 the first edition of Immunity for Health was organised by Flanders Vaccine in Ghent, Belgium. The theme of this edition, “Towards a strategic research agenda for PPPs on the development of vaccines and immunotherapeutics”,…
Many thanks for the highly enjoyable and stimulating consortium meeting in Ghent last week. Listening to the experiences of others groups tackling different aspects of the same problems gave us many ideas for our own research approach. The two guest…
Alasdair J Nisbet, Tom N. McNeilly and Jacqueline B Matthews Moredun Research Institute, Edinburgh Gastrointestinal helminths cause substantial production-limiting disease in livestock worldwide. Indeed, parasitic diseases are viewed as the major cause of economic loss in UK sheep flocks (Learmont…
Report on the Second Consortium Meeting of the Horizon 2020 PARAGONE Project PARAGONE is an EU Horizon 2020 funded research project comprising a partnership of academic and commercial organisations working to develop multicellular parasite vaccines for livestock across the globe.…
And we're off. PARAGONE second consortium meeting off to a great start in Ghent. In-depth discussions on all prototype vaccines today.
The second half of the 20th Century was an exciting time for developments in livestock parasite control. The 1960s saw the introduction of a vaccine to protect cattle against lungworm infection. Developed by Jimmy Armour and colleagues at the University…
A publication from our Belgian partners who are dissecting host protective immune responses to GI nematodes of cattle in order to inform development of a subunit vaccine for control of this important infectious disease.
We are looking forward to the SECOND CONSORTIUM MEETING to take place in Ghent from Sunday 29 August for four days.