The Bloomsbury SET, a £5 million translational research programme led by the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) and funded by Research England, has awarded its first tranche of grants to the total value of £1 million.
The programme adopts a ‘one health’ approach to the development of new vaccines, diagnostic tools and mathematical models to combat infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance. (One Health is the method of collaboration between different disciplines to achieve the best health outcomes for animals and humans.)
Projects conducted by RVC academics were among two of the three recipients of this first tranche of grants. One is a project led by Professor Joanne Webster to examine the treatment of zoonotic hybrid and livestock schistosomiasis, also known as snail fever, in sub-Saharan Africa, which has been awarded £280,274. Meanwhile, the second is a study led by Professor Dirk Werling, in collaboration with Professor Brendan Wren from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), on the development and testing of a vaccine for Streptococcus suis, a disease capable of transmission from pigs to humans, which has been awarded £333,604.
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