Brian Bigirwa

Brian
Bigirwa

Chief Operations Officer
BRENTEC
Biography

Brian is a founding partner at BRENTEC, an animal health solutions company with a difference, that’s dedicated to improving livelihoods in Africa by improving access to quality and affordable livestock vaccines to farmers on the continent. His background is in Biochemistry and Regulatory Sciences. He spearheaded the commercialisation and distribution of a Newcastle disease vaccine including setup of a BSL2 manufacturing site and development of a novel last mile distribution solution to poultry farmers. Additional research work revolves around evaluation of vaccines for suitability for zone IV climate regions with the goal of improving access to vaccines in the Africa.

Research interests

Vaccine Commercialisation

Zoonotic Diseases

Vaccine Formulation

Discipline
Bio-manufacturing Deployment Formulation technology Pharmacovigilance QC test development Quality assurance Registration Regulation Safety evaluation
Host species
Cattle Poultry
Pathogen
ParasitesTicks Viruses VirusesFoot-and-mouth disease virus VirusesInfectious bursal disease virus VirusesInfluenza virus VirusesMareks disease virus VirusesNewcastle disease virus VirusesPeste des petits ruminants virus
Stage of vaccine development
Clinical trials Commercialisation Field trials Marketing Pre-clinical trials Vaccine delivery