Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health announces winners of the 2015 European PRRS Research Award

Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health provides three grants of €25,000 each to fund research projects that generate new and practical information to better understand the devastating swine disease PRRS (Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome). With the European PRRS Research Award the company reinforces its commitment to support applied research for the improved control of PRRS in Europe.

The 2015 European PRRS Research Awards were recently presented to the successful investigators. Three winning projects were chosen out of more than 20 high quality proposals from swine experts and scientists from all across Europe, covering a wide variety of problems and topics related to PRRS. The independent review board selected the following projects to be awarded:

• Interference of Maternally Derived Antibodies with PRRS Vaccine in Piglets: Impact on Viral Parameters and Transmission (Olivier Bourry and Nicolas Rose, Anses - French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety, France)
• PRRSons Project (Carlos Piñeiro Noguera, PigCHAMP Pro Europa S.L., Spain)
• Alternative Sampling Methods in newborn Piglets for PRRS Diagnosis (Gerard E. Martín Valls, IRTA Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)

Swine experts and scientists from Europe and the US participated in the award ceremony, which took place in the Boehringer Ingelheim headquarters in Ingelheim, Germany.

The European PRRS Research Award 2016 call for submission will be opened on February 1st, 2016.