Author: Luke Dalton

IRC Side Event at OIE 87th GS: Accelerating the delivery of animal disease control tools through global research coordination and collaboration

A side event was held at the 87th General Session of the OIE on 29 May to promote the activities of the STAR-IDAZ IRC and engage with potential new partners. Attendees from non-member countries including Iran, Chile, South Korea, Uruguay and Switzerland as well as the veterinary pharmaceutical companies Elanco and Merck joined representatives from […]

DISease CONtrol TOOLS (DISCONTOOLS)

A short video about the DISCONTOOLS database of research gaps for improving infectious disease control in animals. DISCONTOOLS is funded by a number of EU national animal health research funding organisations and is part of the Secretariat to the STAR-IDAZ IRC (SIRCAH).  For further information visit https://www.discontools.eu/

Workshop on IRC Research Roadmaps: Shortening the Innovation Pipeline, 13 December 2018

A workshop was held on the 13th December in Washington DC which brought together research program owners across the public and private sectors in the US to discuss how they can engage with the IRC’s research roadmaps and move forward collectively to shorten the innovation pipeline and tackle disease in the livestock sectors. A high-level […]

European Animal Health Strategic Research Agenda: 2017 update

Europe’s veterinary public health systems are confronted with growing political, economic, sociological, technological and environmental changes and challenges. A priority-focused strategy is urgently needed to best utilize the limited resources invested into animal health research for safeguarding and improving animal health for present and future generations. A foresight study was carried out as part of […]

Existing Initiatives in Working Group Fields

A new report mapping current initiatives in the fields of the IRC priority topics has just been published by the Secretariat to the IRC. Initiatives in this case refer to existing research networks/alliances which enables research teams to successfully work together and facilitate communication/collaboration/sharing reagents and resources. The aim was to gather and compile documents […]

VetBioNet First Newsletter

The first newsletter from VetBioNet is now available  and the newsletter can be downloaded here. VetBioNet is the  EU-funded ‘Veterinary Biocontained facility Network for excellence in animal infectiology research and experimentation’, an infrastructure project to establish a comprehensive network of  high-containment (BSL3) research facilities, academic institutes, international organisations and industry partners. More information on VetBioNet can […]

GFRA Newsletter May 2016

Download the latest newsletter from the GFRA – Global Foot and Mouth Disease Research Alliance.

Launch of the STAR-IDAZ International Research Consortium (IRC) on Animal Health

Animal diseases can cause serious social, economic and environmental damage, impact on animal welfare and in some cases directly threaten human health. These diseases ignore borders. Livestock provides one third of human protein intake so working together to develop new control methods for the disease problems that are common to countries around the world is […]

GFRA Newsletter June 2015

Download the latest newsletter from the GFRA – Global Foot and Mouth Disease Research Alliance.

New UK Veterinary Vaccinology Network

BBSRC has funded a new multidisciplinary network of veterinary vaccinology experts to help in the fight against animal diseases, some of which have the potential to spread to humans. The UK Veterinary Vaccinology Network will draw together major UK research players to enhance the uptake of new technologies in order to design, develop and deliver […]