Institute for Animal Health

2009

• New research posts in IAH. - 02 December 2009
• African swine fever virus on the move again. - 19 November 2009
• Professor Tom Barrett, an appreciation - 28 September 2009
• IAH?s Simon Carpenter awarded the first Rooker Prize - 8 September 2009
• New strategy for Institute for Animal Health - 7 September 2009
• Livestock infectious diseases and zoonoses: threats to us all. - 19 August 2009
• Launch of bluetongue virus typing kit, based on IAH research - 17 August 2009
• £100M boost for animal health research - 27 July 2009
• IAH contributes to analysis of the complete cattle genome - 24 April 2009
• IAH reveals that the prevalence of scrapie in British sheep has declined since 2003 - 14 April 2009
• IAH’s Dr Tracey Coffey contributes to the NFU’s ‘Why Science Matters for Farming’ campaign - 26 February 2009
• Future Plans for the Institute for Animal Health - Update - 13 February 2009
• IAH confirms another new serotype of bluetongue virus, in Belgium - 11 February 2009
• Future plans for the Institute for Animal Health - 3 February 2009
• Dr. Phil Jones, an appreciation - 7 January 2009
• IAH scientist receives OBE in New Year Honours List - 5 January 2009

2008

• IAH bluetongue experts on the BBC World Service - 17 December 2008
• Bluetongue: IAH experts advise against complacency in 2009 - 8 December 2008
• Institute for Animal Health enters into a license agreement with Qiagen for bluetongue virus test - 11 November 2008
• Bluetongue virus type 6 in the Netherlands: new data relevant to the origin of the virus - 5 November 2008
• New serotype of bluetongue virus detected in Switzerland, in goats - 4 November 2008
• Institute's Farm Science Visitor Centre featured in BBSRC Business - 9 October 2008
• New Chief Executive for the BBSRC - 1 December 2008
• British Mastitis Conference - 8 October 2008
• How does bluetongue virus survive the winter? A question of practical importance. - 26 August 2008
• Midge-hunting scientists tackle spread of devastating bluetongue virus - 7 August 2008
• IAH at the Royal Society’s Summer Exhibition - July 2008
• IAH at the Royal Show - July 2008
• New project to assess bluetongue vaccination in UK - 8 July 2008
• IAH at the Royal Society and Royal Show - 1 July 2008
• Institute for Animal Health scientists highlighted for contribution to UK economy - 2nd June 2008
• Institute for Animal Health celebrates its 50th anniversary as the World Reference Laboratory for foot-and-mouth disease - 13th may 2008
• Foot-and-mouth disease: rapid on-farm test is now available - 13th may 2008
• Beringer Review of the funding, governance and risk management at the IAH - 15th April 2008
• Joint BBSRC/IAH response to Anderson Report - 11th March 2008
• Bluetongue virus might survive the winter within foetuses - 5th March
• Institute for Animal Health teams up with local Woking MP Humfrey Malins for a look behind the scenes - 20th February 2008
• Institute for Animal Health at Compton hosts a conference on bluetongue for members of the National Farmers’ Union - 16th January 2008

2007

• Genetic data shows second phase of Foot-and-Mouth infection did not originate from Pirbright - 13th December 2007
• Dr Jayne Hope and Colleagues win the Animal Pharm Award for "Outstanding Contribution by an Academic or Scientific Institution" - 6th November 2007
• Foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Surrey: timeline of the rapid diagnosis and detective work by the Institute for Animal Health - 26th October 2007
• How the Institute for Animal Health rapidly diagnoses bluetongue - 20th October 2007
• Probable occasion when bluetongue virus-infected midges were blown to UK - 20th October 2007
• Catching midges, the spreaders of bluetongue virus - 20th October 2007
• Bluetongue virus-infected adult midges surviving winter may have been responsible for the re-emergence of bluetongue this year in northern Europe - 12 October 2007
• The importance of farm visits by IAH staff during the 2007 UK foot-and-mouth disease outbreak - 8 October 2007
• How Institute for Animal Health detects antibodies to foot-and-mouth disease virus - 4 October 2007
• How the Institute for Animal Health diagnoses foot-and-mouth disease rapidly - 19 September 2007 - updated 2 October 2007
• Institute for Animal Health diagnoses bluetongue in Suffolk - 22 September 2007 - updated 24th September 2007
• Institute for Animal Health statement re: Foot-and-Mouth Disease outbreak near Egham - Reporting Timeline - 16 September 2007- updated 21st September 2007
• Institute for Animal Health statement re: Foot and Mouth outbreak near Egham - 12 September 2007
• Institute for Animal Health statement in response on the HSE report, Spratt review and Epidemiology report regarding probable release of FMD virus from the Pirbright site - 7 September 2007
• IAH scientist wins award for application of techniques that require fewer experimental animals for research into vaccines against Salmonella and E. coli in farm animals - 24 August 2007
• Statement from the Institute for Animal Health on Legionella - 15 August 2007
• Statement from the Institute for Animal Health regarding allegations on biosecurity - 12 August 2007
• Statement from Institute for Animal Health - 09 August 2007
• Institute for Animal Health statement on allegations of Legionella contamination - 09 August 2007
• Institute for Animal Health transcript of Director's statement to media - 07 August 2007
• Institute for Animal Health transcript of Director's statement to media - 05 August 2007
• Institute for Animal Health statement on Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak - 05 August 2007
• Researchers calculate that UK cattle and sheep are at risk from bluetongue - press release of 25 July 2007
• Bluetongue active again near the Belgian coast - 23 July 2007
• Development in Germany heightens the concern that bluetongue virus may come to UK this year - 22 June 2007
• Institute for Animal Health rapidly diagnoses African swine fever in Georgia - 12 June 2007
• Meteorological considerations for the spread of bluetongue to the UK from Northern Europe - 3 April 2007 - updated 5 April 2007
• Bluetongue in Northern Europe - 09 February 2007

2006

• Simon Carpenter talks on BBC ?Farming Today? about bluetongue disease, a threat enhanced by climate change - 12 December 2006
• Faster tests for foot-and-mouth disease will result in fewer wrong diagnoses - 15 September 2006
• Bluetongue virus in the Netherlands identified as serotype 8 by IAH - 29 August 2006
• Bluetongue: key contribution to diagnosis by IAH - 22 August 2006
• New Director for IAH, Professor Martin Shirley - 22 June 06
• Latest Annual Report, 2005 - 22 June 06
• Is there a significant risk of transmission of vCJD? - 27 March 2006
• Innate immune research project gets underway in the UK - 27 February 2006