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Become a member of the International Veterinary Vaccinology Network

The IVVN is an international community of over 1,400 members working together to develop improved vaccines for livestock and zoonotic diseases.

About Us

The Network provides the opportunity to establish multi-partnered, international collaborations that bring together the diverse skills that can accelerate the development of vaccines.

Vaccines for Aquaculture, Vaccines for Poultry, Vaccines for Swine and Vaccines for Ruminants

IVVN Virtual Symposia

A series of half-day online meetings, featuring talks, posters and networking, with each symposium focused on efforts to develop vaccines for a different host group.

Funded pump-priming grants

The IVVN fund pump-priming projects to accelerate the development of vaccines for livestock diseases of importance in LMICs. Find out more about the ten exciting projects we have funded so far.

IVVN African Schools Outreach Programme

The IVVN African Schools Outreach Programme is a collaborative initiative which trains and supports women scientists working in Africa to deliver schools outreach workshops and inspire the next generation of African scientists.

News

Mentoring fellowships for women in low-and-middle income countries awarded

Six fellowship projects have been funded as part of our female fellowship programme jointly awarded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre.

08 Mar 2021

Virtual symposium on poultry vaccines sees IVVN partnering with GCRF One Health Poultry Hub

Seven speakers presented their research on vaccines for poultry in a half-day symposium that also included a poster session.

26 Feb 2021

Webinar on catalysing elimination of dog-mediated human rabies by 2030 in Africa

Dr Thumbi Mwangi gave a webinar on rabies and vaccination's role in the goal to eliminate the disease from Africa by 2030.

28 Jan 2021

Events

22 April 2021

‘Big Data’ Symposium - combatting infectious disease and AMR

Online

26 April 2021, 09:00 to 12:30 BST

Vaccines for Ruminants

Online

More events

Blog

COVID-19 vaccine: the eight technologies being tested

A vaccine is the most effective and safest way of ending the COVID-19 pandemic. But which vaccine types are being tested and how far have the projects progressed?

21 May 2020

Interview with Dr Volker Gerdts, Director and CEO of VIDO-InterVac

We spoke with Dr Volker Gerdts, Director and CEO of VIDO-InterVac, about his organisation’s work on developing and testing a subunit vaccine against SARS-CoV-2.

11 May 2020

COVID-19 vaccination: lessons to be learned from veterinary coronavirus vaccines

Dr Michael James Francis, IVVN board member and Managing Director of BioVacc Consulting Ltd, discusses vaccines against veterinary coronaviruses and how these could relate to the COVID-19 pandemic.

05 May 2020

National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), Thailand

Dr Peera Jaru-Ampornpan and Dr Vanvimon Saksmerprome introduce BIOTEC, a research centre in Thailand, and discuss the veterinary vaccinology research that happens at the institute.

01 May 2020

Funding and job opportunities

Deadline: 5 April 2021

Call for concept notes: Collaborative One Health Research Initiative on Epidemics

International Development Research Centre

Funding

Closing date: 31 March 2021

Grade 7 x 2 Biologicals Assessors in the Biologicals Team

£52,289-£60,188

Veterinary Medicines Directorate, United Kingdom

Vacancy

PhD studentship at The Pirbright Institute

Closing date: 29 March 2021

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Publications

01 Dec 2021

Importance of brucellosis control programs of livestock on the improvement of one health

Veterinary Quarterly

Peer-reviewed article

17 Mar 2021

Bovine neutrophils release extracellular traps and cooperate with macrophages in Mycobacterium avium subsp paratuberculosis clearance in vitro

Frontiers in Immunology

Peer-reviewed article

16 Mar 2021

The influence of intranasal peste des petits ruminants (PPR) vaccine administration alone or with phytogenic mucoadhesive delivery system on PPR outbreak outcomes in goats

Journal of Immunoassay and Immunochemistry

Peer-reviewed article

15 Mar 2021

Macrophage-specific responses to human- and animal-adapted tubercle bacilli reveal pathogen and host factors driving multinucleated cell formation

PLoS Pathogens

Peer-reviewed article

Publications

@IntVetVaccNet on Twitter

RT @compvetimm: Its the turn of the ruminants!!! IVVN are holding a symposium covering efforts to develop vaccines against bovine TB, foot and mouth disease, echinococcosis, bovine babesiosis, Q fever and Nairobi sheep disease.⏰ https://t.co/1gwLzknPze

1 day 13 hours ago

RT @edgenome: Looking forward to getting started tomorrow @IntVetVaccNet https://t.co/pWM0qnDkYZ

2 days 8 hours ago

Two weeks to go! The next #IVVNsymposium is on vaccines for ruminants, with talks covering efforts to develop vaccines against bovine TB, foot and mouth disease, echinococcosis, bovine babesiosis, Q fever and Nairobi sheep disease. Register here: https://t.co/Gb2sLQgDSh https://t.co/aVfY5oqc5s

2 days 11 hours ago

RT @EkayaEkaya: I asked attendees of the just-ended 3-day @ILRI #CapDevChallenge @IntVetVaccNet training on Effective Oral Presentation skills to describe the course or how they felt about it using ONE word. The course landed well!!. Thanking my co-trainer @ericfevre https://t.co/FWBe1l1Zvr

5 days 10 hours ago

RT @roslininstitute: 3D tissue cultures mimicking the chicken gut have been developed to accelerate studies into poultry health and disease, including infections such as Salmonella and bird flu. @BBSRC @Ukri #AnimalStudies #3Rs @LVervelde @TessNashNash #DiseaseModels #3Rs https://t.co/M6cSkbiBcl

6 days 14 hours ago

We are delighted to support 19 early career researchers from low-and-middle income countries to attend @ILRI's online training course on how to plan and deliver effective oral and poster presentations ️ Thank you to @EkayaEkaya for organising! https://t.co/tIsEHC1OWc

1 week 14 hours ago

RT @Pirbright_Inst: Pirbright researchers are fighting #COVID19 by testing the immune response of @UniofOxford's new potential vaccine candidate in pigs @NatureComms https://t.co/arUstfoVGm

1 week 1 day ago

RT @MariaFWUR: Pls RT!! #postdoc WANTED! interested in #trypanosomes and how they behave in their transparent #zebrafish host? in spending half time @Cambridge_Uni (UK) and half time @WURanimal (NL)? check this amazing opportunity! #zebrafishJobs #trypanosomeJobs https://t.co/XntqcHf6pi https://t.co/5Nvy9tb9dS

1 week 1 day ago

One week left to submit an abstract to present a poster at our next #IVVNsymposium on Monday 26 April, which will cover #vaccines for ruminants. Deadline: Thursday 8 April. Details and registration: https://t.co/Gb2sLQgDSh https://t.co/tJfndguzdi

1 week 6 days ago

RT @hic_vac: UK members - if you haven't already, please sign this petition to urge the Government to re-consider the cuts to global heath research. And please re-tweet to all your colleagues. @BactiVac @IMPRINT_network @NetworkValidate @IntVetVaccNet https://t.co/OyrRv3spnp

1 week 6 days ago

RT @AWARDFellowship: Thank you to everyone who joined our webinar yesterday on #WomenInSTEM and leadership. If you didn't get a chance to listen in, we got you! You can now listen to the webinar recording here: https://t.co/CThYDyUwQv. @IntVetVaccNet @BecAHub @roslininstitute @uonbi https://t.co/fW8dqDQG2F

1 week 6 days ago

RT @EandDEasterBush: A recording of this fantastic event on paving the way for women leaders in science, technology and innovation is available here: https://t.co/o5n3h7gE36 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM https://t.co/92XorMZ1fV

1 week 6 days ago

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Welcome to the International Veterinary Vaccinology Network (IVVN).

The IVVN is an international community of over 1,400 members working together to develop improved vaccines for livestock and zoonotic diseases.

About Us

IVVN Virtual Symposia

Funded pump-priming grants

IVVN African Schools Outreach Programme

News

Mentoring fellowships for women in low-and-middle income countries awarded

Virtual symposium on poultry vaccines sees IVVN partnering with GCRF One Health Poultry Hub

Webinar on catalysing elimination of dog-mediated human rabies by 2030 in Africa

Events

‘Big Data’ Symposium - combatting infectious disease and AMR

Vaccines for Ruminants

Blog

COVID-19 vaccine: the eight technologies being tested

Interview with Dr Volker Gerdts, Director and CEO of VIDO-InterVac

COVID-19 vaccination: lessons to be learned from veterinary coronavirus vaccines

National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), Thailand

Funding and job opportunities

Call for concept notes: Collaborative One Health Research Initiative on Epidemics

Grade 7 x 2 Biologicals Assessors in the Biologicals Team

B cell responses in protection against African swine fever virus

BBSRC Discovery Fellowship 2021

BactiVac catalyst funding for pump-priming projects (round 5)

View all job vacancies

View all funding opportunities

Publications

Importance of brucellosis control programs of livestock on the improvement of one health

Bovine neutrophils release extracellular traps and cooperate with macrophages in Mycobacterium avium subsp paratuberculosis clearance in vitro

The influence of intranasal peste des petits ruminants (PPR) vaccine administration alone or with phytogenic mucoadhesive delivery system on PPR outbreak outcomes in goats

Macrophage-specific responses to human- and animal-adapted tubercle bacilli reveal pathogen and host factors driving multinucleated cell formation

@IntVetVaccNet on Twitter

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