Partner 28 - Institute for Animal Health (IAH)
The mission of IAH is to carry out and provide training in fundamental and applied research on infectious diseases of farm animals; to advance knowledge and understanding of existing and new infectious diseases; to develop disease control measures which will enhance farm animal welfare, increase the efficiency of agriculture and protect the environment and to improve food quality and safety with particular reference to zoonoses.
For poultry research, IAH has more than 10 inbred lines of chickens, characterised as to their MHC haplotype and their susceptibility to pathogens. IAH works on a number of bacterial, viral and parasitic infection models with these inbred lines and relevant crosses. IAH also has 12 research groups working on both the pathogens themselves, various aspects of the host's immune response to these pathogens, and poultry genetics.
IAH has been actively involved in international collaborations, in particular several Framework 5 projects including Chicken-IMAGE (KA5-QLRT-CT99-1591). The Institute is also currently involved in the framework 6 NoE, EADGENE.
Involved in:
WP4
Key staff in SABRE:
Dr Pete Kaiser – IAH-SABRE Coordinator
Dr Mark Fife
Nigel Salmon
Dr Adrian Smith
Contact Details:
Institute for Animal Health
Division of Immunology
High Street
Compton
RG20 7NN
UK
Tel: +44 1635 578411
Fax: +44 1635 577237
www.iah.ac.uk