Pirbright Institute
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| Parent organizations | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council |
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| Founded | 1987 |
| Locations | Ash |
| Pirbright | |
| Surrey | |
| England | |
| Directors | Bryan Charleston |
| Legal status | Government-funded research institute (registered charity) |
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| ID | 2290812 |
About Pirbright Institute
The Pirbright Institute is a research institute in Surrey, England, dedicated to the study of infectious diseases of farm animals. It forms part of the UK government's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. The Institute employs scientists, vets, PhD students and operations staff.
Bird flu: What is it and what's behind the outbreak?
... "160 million domestic birds worldwide have been killed by this virus, or have had to be culled by farmers to contain it, " says Professor Munir Iqbal of the UK s Pirbright Institute, which specialises in animal welfare...
Coronavirus: How a false rumour led to hatred online
...exploration of viruses in farm animals is much more than the glamorous work, and the Pirbright Institute in Surrey in the...
Coronavirus: 'Pets there is no danger of the owner veterinarians stress
... following a case in Belgium, where a cat tested positive about a week after its owner showed symptoms, It is interesting to note, in the experimental evidence that cats can infect, Prof Bryan Charleston, Director of the UK s Pirbright Institute, which specializes in the study of infectious diseases, said, adding that the evidence for the transferability of humans to other animals was the construction...
Could the relatives of the measles virus to jump from animals to us?
... Dalan Bailey, a virologist at Pirbright Institute, what makes morbilli virus so cleverly in the cross-species transmission is that the proteins that it commandeers do so are very similar in different mammalian species, so the species barrier is low...
