Lucilla Steinaa is Principal Scientist at International Livestock Research Institute. Lucilla obtained her PhD in cellular immunology at University of Copenhagen. She has a background from the Danish Biotech sector where she has worked as senior scientist and project leader in the area of vaccines and therapeutic antibodies for human diseases for a period of 13 years. She moved to ILRI in 2009, working on vaccine development for the cattle diseases East Coast fever. Currently, she works on generating a vaccine against African swine fever, where the approach is to attenuate the virus using gene editing. In another recent project, these efforts has be expanded to a more complex pathogen, the apicomplexan parasite, Theileria parva, the causative agent for the cattle disease East Coast fever, to simplify the vaccination and to omit the use of antibiotics in the current infection-and-treatment method.