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Seasons Greetings from SIRCAH2!

To our STAR-IDAZ IRC Colleagues. Our best wishes for the festive season and we look forward to seeing you all in 2023! Many thanks for all of your continued support throughout 2022!

Biotic concerns in generating molecular diagnosis matrixes for 4 avian viruses

Irit Davidson from the STAR-IDAZ scientific committee published this paper  BIOTIC – JVM pdf in 2019 on the “Biotic concerns in generating molecular diagnosis with emphasis on Marek’s disease virus” in the Journal of Virological Methods. The paper discusses the biotic factors and the complexities that became evident with the evolution of the novel molecular diagnostic […]

The ISIDORe Preparedness programme is now ready!

The ISIDORe Preparedness programme is now ready and that the new calls for proposals are open to applications for free of charge access to the consortium facilities and services! To prevent future pandemics, and advance the development of the appropriate medical countermeasures, the ISIDORe preparedness programme includes a list of priority preparedness pathogens clustered in […]

SIRCAH2 begins!

SIRCAH2, the new Secretariat of STAR-IDAZ IRC on Animal Health project , began on 1st October 2022. With further funding from the European Commission, the secretariat will continue supporting the STAR-IDAZ International Research Consortium for the next 4.5 years. Building on previous collaborations in SIRCAH, Kreavet, CABI, DEFRA, BBRSC and WOAH will work together to […]

Summer 2019

STAR-IDAZ June 2019 Newsletter 4 Attachments Newsletter Star-Idaz June 2019 (158 kB)

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 […]

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 […]

African swine fever in China – first report

The first outbreak of African swine fever in China has been confirmed on 3 Aug 2018 by Dr. Zhang Zhongqui, Director General, China Animal Disease Control Centre, Veterinary Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China. (Since the first outbreak there are reports of 2 more confirmed and one more not yet confirmed.) China has the largest pig […]