The Institute is run by the Institute Executive Board which reports to the
Trustee Board.
- Director
- Director of Science
- Director of Operations
- Change Programme Director
- Head of Compliance, Regulatory Affairs and Risk
- Head of Finance and Procurement
- Head of Pirbright Laboratory
- Head of Institute Strategic Programmes
The Institute
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Pirbright
Pirbright Laboratory is situated near the village of Pirbright, near Guildford, Surrey. The focus of attention of the 173 employees, plus research students and visiting scientists is on exotic viruses, ones that do not normally affect the UK. The scientists at IAH Pirbright have expertise on these viruses that is unique within the UK. Pirbright offers training courses on the diagnosis of transboundary animal diseases, specifically foot-and-mouth disease, bluetongue and capripox.
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Compton
Compton Laboratory is situated within the village of Compton, near Newbury, Berkshire. It is at Compton Laboratory that we study disease-causing agents (pathogens) that are usually present (endemic) in the UK.
Compton Laboratory runs an annual two-week Poultry Health Course.
The Compton area is the home of the Institute's farm, which provides high quality animals for experiments, and operates on a commercial basis, including milk production.
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Farm
The Institute farm in the Compton area comprises 780 hectares of predominantly chalk downland descending into two alluvial/gravel valleys comprising the upper reaches of the Pang Valley, within the North Wessex Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Our fields are cropped with wheat, oil seed rape, spring barley, forage maize, lucerne and grass - a proportion of which goes to feed the farms herd of 450 Holstein Friesian dairy cows and flock of Dorset sheep.