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Welcome to the International Veterinary Vaccinology Network (IVVN).

The IVVN is an international community of over 2,300 members working together to develop improved vaccines for livestock and zoonotic diseases.

23 October 2025

IVVN–CVIM Webinar | An Overview of the Centre for Veterinary Vaccine Innovation and Manufacturing

The webinar will provide an overview of CVIM, including its history, role within the veterinary vaccinology pipeline, current collaborations, and how IVVN members can engage with their work.

Supporting the Next Generation of Veterinary Vaccine Leaders: Meet the 2025 IVVN ECR Fellowship Cohort

The International Veterinary Vaccinology Network (IVVN) is pleased to introduce our 2025 cohort of Early Career Researcher (ECR) Fellows. Over the next 18 months, these researchers will receive tailored support through the IVVN ECR Career Development Fellowship - a scheme designed to accelerate their growth as future leaders in veterinary vaccinology

International Veterinary Vaccinology Network Conference 2024

The International Veterinary Vaccinology Network (IVVN) Conference 2024 will be hosted in partnership with the Biotechnology Center at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on 9 and 10 November.

IVVN African Schools Outreach Programme

A collaborative initiative that trains and supports women scientists in Africa to deliver schools outreach workshops.

Funded pump-priming grants

We have so far funded 17 exciting projects through our pump-priming catalyst funding scheme.

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News

IVVN Landscape Workshop: Shaping the Future of Veterinary Vaccinology

The IVVN Landscape Workshop (3–4 September 2025) brought together global stakeholders in veterinary vaccinology to discuss key challenges and priorities for the field. Over two days of facilitated discussions, participants developed action plans to strengthen research, innovation, and collaboration across the community.

IVVN and POMS Early Career Researchers and Mentors Gather in Vienna for Fellowship Scheme Launch

On 15-16 August 2025, the International Veterinary Vaccinology Network (IVVN) hosted the launch of its Early Career Researcher (ECR) Fellowship Scheme in Vienna, Austria. Fellows from both the IVVN and POMS schemes met for the first time to connect, share experiences, and set the stage for their fellowship journeys.

Identifying New T-Cell Epitopes for Babesia bovis: A Pump Priming Grant Success Story

Research supported by the International Veterinary Vaccinology Network (IVVN) Pump Priming Grant has led to promising advances in the search for a new generation of vaccines against Babesia bovis, a parasite responsible for significant economic losses in cattle production worldwide.

Events

BBSRC Community Webinar 2025

Presentations will cover current activities plus ambitions and priorities, including BBSRC's refreshed Forward Look for UK Bioscience.

14-16 October 2025

World Vaccine Congress Europe

From basic research to commercial manufacture, this one meeting covers the whole vaccine value chain where science, government and manufacturers all come together to create groundbreaking progress.

RAI Congress Centre, Amsterdam

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Jobs

Closes: 1 February 2026

The sub-Saharan Africa Health Research and Innovation Fellowship Program (SAHRI Fellowship)

The SAHRI Fellowship programme is an exceptional three-year training trajectory designed to empower 12 talented mid-career biomedical and clinical researchers from sub-Saharan Africa (sSA) to become leaders in biomedical innovation and clinical research.

Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

Closes: 5 November 2025

Head of Science Strategy

We are seeking an exceptional research-active leader to become Head of Science Strategy at The Pirbright Institute. This is a unique opportunity to combine your own world-class research programme with a senior strategic leadership role at one of the UK’s most important bioscience institutes.

The Pirbright Institute

Closes: 29 September 2025

Innovation Facilitator

This role will aid VMD to transition to a more proactive approach to innovation, ensuring that its regulatory frameworks and guidance evolve to enable new technologies, and that this guidance is accessible to innovators.

Veterinary Medicines Directorate

Closes: 14 November 2025

Liverpool Clinical PhD Programme (LCPP)

These Clinical PhD Fellowships are tailored for clinical researchers, including doctors, midwives, nurses, public health professionals, allied health professionals, and veterinarians, spanning various scientific disciplines.

University of Liverpool

Closes: 15 October 2025

Professorship for Poultry Medicine

The professorship is affiliated to the Clinical Centre for Population Medicine in Fish, Pig and Poultry and is intended to focus on research and teaching related to poultry.

University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna

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Funding

Closes: 31 October 2025

MRC Impact Accelerator Account - Round 4

The MRC Impact Accelerator Account (IAA) scheme provides funding to institutions to support the earliest stages of translational research projects.

Closes: 23 September 2025

BBSRC Engineering Biology (EngBio) ICURe Discover

Apply for funding to explore the potential market of your engineering biology-based idea, increase market awareness and gain deeper understanding of your technology’s potential applications.

Closes: 31 January 2026

The Plowright Prize 2025/2026

The £100,000 Plowright Prize, awarded every two years, recognises an individual who has made a significant contribution to control, management or eradication of infectious diseases of animals.

Closes: 14 October 2025

Turing AI Pioneer Interdisciplinary Fellowships: Outline Applications

This opportunity is for established researchers from across UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) remit, without a background in core artificial intelligence (AI) research, who want to build domain relevant AI capability and develop advanced AI approaches to tackle a specific research challenge in their chosen field.

Closes: 30 September 2025

International Travel Award Scheme for the Biological Sciences

Apply for funding to visit international partners, to initiate collaborations, prepare joint funding proposals, visit overseas facilities or attend European consortia-building events.

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)

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Publications

Immunogenicity, security and protection against small ruminant lentivirus (SRLV) challenge in sheep, induced by intranasal immunization with a recombinant Sendai virus vector expressing SRLV gag-P25.

Peer-reviewed article

A One Health approach to bovine coronavirus vaccine development, using LSDV as a live virus vector.

Hum Vaccin Immunother

Peer-reviewed article

A lineage 1 branch porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus live vaccine candidate provides broad cross-protection against HP-like PRRSV in piglets.

Peer-reviewed article

Foot-and-mouth disease vaccine with insertion of a 24-amino acid VP1 G-H loop epitope of the Cathay virus provides broad antigenic coverage.

Appl Microbiol Biotechnol

Peer-reviewed article

Publications

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Blog

Taking a One Health approach to tackling infectious diseases

One Health Day 2022: A One Health approach requires close collaboration across sectors and disciplines to balance animal, human and planetary health.

How technology platforms allow The Vaccine Group to address animal and human vaccine development gaps

The Vaccine Group aims to develop herpesvirus-based vaccines for use in animals to protect against infectious disease.

Amos Lucky Mhone selfie taken in a laboratory

Amos Lucky Mhone, graduate fellow at ILRI, Kenya

Amos is a graduate fellow at the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya, and intends to pursue a PhD in immunology and vaccinology.

Online workshop on optimisation of the production of sporozoite stabilate for Theileria parva

This workshop brought together groups interested in sporozoite production for the parasite Theileria parva, which causes the disease East Coast fever.