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ILRI finalizing action plan to curb classical swine fever in India’s northeast
A pig on a farm in Nikhekhu Village, Dimapur, Nagaland, India (photo credit: ILRI/Mann). ‘The Nairobi-headquartered International Livestock Research Institute is undertaking a comprehensive study on...
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Priorities for researching livestock diseases in Africa
For the November 2011 ‘liveSTOCK Exchange’ event at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Oumar Diall, of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), reflects on ILRI’s...
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‘Out of the lab and into the field–with our clients': Phil Toye on getting...
For the November 2011 ‘liveSTOCK Exchange’ event at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Phil Toye, an Australian immunologist who leads ILRI’s animal health research on development...
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Finding a needle in a (molecular) haystack: A decade-long search for a...
For the November 2011 ‘liveSTOCK Exchange’ event at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Roger Pellé, a molecular biologist from Cameroon, reflects on ILRI’s biotechnology research...
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A focus on focus: Reining in an eclectic past to make a bigger difference
For the November 2011 ‘liveSTOCK Exchange’ event at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Tom Randolph, an American agricultural economist recently appointed director of a new...
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Australia steps up support for research in Africa to reduce the continent’s...
ILRI scientist Joerg Jores (right) tells German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who visited the ILRI-BecA labs in July 2011, about his livestock disease research (photo credit: ILRI/Njoroge). ‘Owning large...
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Improving lives and livelihoods through improved livestock health
Livestock offer powerful pathways out of poverty for an estimated 750 million poor farmers in South Asia and Africa in addition to providing food, nutritional and economic security. Most poor farmers...
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US National Science Foundation’s BREAD funds Craig Venter and ILRI to battle...
Dinner with philanthropist Bill Gates at the home of genome-czar J Craig Venter in La Jolla, California, in 2008 (photo by jurvetson on Flickr). ‘Gates asked the most astute and detailed questions...
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Devastating African disease of pigs gets new attention and funding
African Swine Fever Workshop, July 2011, Nairobi; from left: Raymond Rowland (Kansas State University), David Odongo (ILRI), Richard Bishop (ILRI), Maria-Jesus Munoz (CISA-INIA) and Jose-Manuel...
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Small livestock, big impact
Kenyan geneticist and new PhD Sheila Ommeh (right) works at the Biosciences eastern and central Africa Hub (BecA Hub) and ILRI’s animal health laboratories in Nairobi, Kenya, studying Africa’s native...
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African swine fever is growing threat to poor and rich countries alike
Participants of an African swine fever workshop held in July 2011 at ILRI’s Nairobi headquarters: (From left) Raymond Rowland (Kansas State University), David Odongo (ILRI), Richard Bishop (ILRI),...
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Preventing and controlling classical swine fever in northeast India
Classical swine fever is a highly contagious, potentially fatal viral disease that affects pigs. This disease is a major constraint to the development of pig farming systems in northeast India where...
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ILRI’s Jeff Mariner speaks on what he learned from the eradication of...
ILRI veterinary epidemiologist Jeff Mariner presents his research at a meeting of the World Animal Health Organisation (OIE) (photo credit: OIE). Lauren Everitt of AllAfrica interviewed Jeffrey...
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New Scientist’s Fred Pearce reports on ‘How African herders rid the planet of...
Tom Olaka, a community animal health worker in Karamajong, northern Uganda, was part of a vaccination campaign in remote areas of the Horn of Africa that drove the cattle plague rinderpest to...
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Vaccine developed by KARI, supported by ILRI, is ‘milestone in control of...
Faith Kivuti with her mother milking a cow in Kenya (photo on Flickr by Jeff Haskins). A vaccine to protect cattle against a lethal disease known as East Coast fever has been launched in Kenya, where...
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Scientists launch consortium to control a lethal disease of cattle in Africa
Group picture of participants of an inception workshop for a project to improve vaccines for the control of East Coast fever in cattle in Africa. The workshop was held at ILRI’s Nairobi campus 27-29...
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On a cancer killer of cattle in Africa–Voice of America interviews ILRI’s...
Gregg Bevier (left) and Lee Klejtnot (right), of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with Vish Nene (middle), head of ILRI’s Vaccine Biosciences Program, visit an ILRI project site in Busia, in...
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New battle starts up against the ‘cancer/malaria’ of cattle in Africa
Pipetting in one of ILRI’s animal health laboratories (photo credit: ILRI/David White). (From Business Daily): ‘An international livestock agency has received an $11 million (Sh935 million) grant for...
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Vaccine cliff-hanger (‘parasite page-turner’) on Gates’ blog
The Moschophoros (calf-bearer), archaic statue, 570 BC, Acropolis Museum. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation blog, Impatient Optimists, is running a piece about ‘an unusual story . . . unfolding...
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Declan McKeever –‘Veterinary Record’ tribute to gifted ILRI/ILRAD scientist...
Peter Doherty (left, Nobel Laureate and head of the program committee of the ILRAD board of trustees) and Declan McKeever (right) at ILRAD in the 1990s (photo credit: ILRI). In a further tribute to...
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