CIDLID

Combating Infectious Diseases of Livestock for International Development (CIDLID)

The CIDLID research programme, launched on 15th February 2010, is a £13M+ investment from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Department for International Development (DFID), with contributions from the Scottish Government.

The initiative is made up of 16 projects which over the next four years will look at some of the most prevalent, damaging and costly diseases of livestock in developing countries. It involves collaborations with more than 20 overseas institutes to not only control or prevent these diseases but also to build scientific capacity at a local and national level within these countries. This will enable them to manage these diseases and apply new findings and technologies to other disease areas, in both livestock and humans.

There is more information about the CIDLID programme at the BBSRC and DFID web sites.

The Institute for Animal Health is leading eight of the projects: