Dr Harry Wright, Moredun Research Institute Team The first year of the PARAGONE project has been an extremely rewarding experience. I have been producing and preparing vaccine antigens for trials in Gran Canaria and in Belgium. I was fortunate enough…
Dr Dan Price, Moredun Research Institute I joined Moredun Research Institute a little over 12 months ago and have been working full-time on the European Union funded Horizon 2020 PARAGONE project. The project aims to move prototype vaccines for animal…
9-10th May 2016 Ghent, Belgium On the 9 and 10 May, several PARAGONE academic and commercial partners from the UK, Belgium, Spain and Ireland attended a European Veterinary Vaccines Workshop held at the Het Pand Conference Centre at the University…
Drs Yolanda Corripio-Miyar and Tom McNeilly (Moredun Research Institute) visited Profs Edwin Clarebout and Peter Geldhof at the Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, Ghent University to discuss adjuvant development for Ostertagia ostertagi vaccines (April 2016). Pictured L-R, Yolanda, Edwin,…
Details of the University of Cordoba's relationship with the Paragone H2020 project. http://www.redotriandalucia.es/catalog/H2020-SFS-2014-2-635408/ See also the pdf below: europeanproject_H2020-SFS-2014-2-635408
A write up of the Paragone H2020 project in the University of Cordoba TRUCO magazine. Click here to download: Paragone-TRUCO-2016
Jacqui Matthews is off to speak about PARAGONE at the BBSRC UK Veterinary Vaccinology Conference in Manchester: http://www.vetvaccnet.ac.uk/veterinary-vaccinology-network-conference-2016
At the Norwegian Veterinary Institute, researcher Øivind Øines is researching the molecular epidemiology of PRM, and this work is ongoing through a separate collaboration-project with Animalia Fjørfe
A successful Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Workshop draws to a close a Moredun Research Institute, Edinburgh. Partners from across the PARAGONE consortium came together with scientists from the EU H2020 SAPHIR consortium (http://www.h2020-saphir.eu/) to learn about the design, analysis and…
The PARAGONE participants were delighted to see that a Nobel prize had been awarded to the discoverers of Ivermectin. William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura discovered the new drug, Avermectin. Ivermectin, a derivative of this drug, has radically lowered the incidence…