Presentation from the Livestock Inter-Agency Donor Group (IADG) Meeting 2010. 4-5 May 2010 Italy, Rome IFAD Headquarters. The event involved approximately 45 representatives from the international partner agencies to discuss critical needs for livestock development and research issues for the coming decade. [ Originally posted on http://www.cop-ppld.net/cop_knowledge_base ]

1. BBSRC Strategy and More
Dr Jef Hammond
Head World Reference Laboratory
for Foot and Mouth Disease
Institute for Animal Health,
Pirbright Laboratory, U.K.
A BBSRC Institute

2. Outline
• Introduction to BBSRC
• BBSRC Strategic Plan 2010-2015
• Animal Sciences funding
• Food Security
• CIDLID
• FMD

3. What is BBSRC’s function?
MISSION
• Fund first-class BIOSCIENCE (NON-
MEDICAL) RESEARCH
• TRAIN bioscientists
• Support KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER
• ENGAGE with public
STAKEHOLDERS
• SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY
• INDUSTRY: agriculture, food, chemical,
health, pharmaceutical
• PUBLIC: dialogue and consultation
• GOVERNMENT
• INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS
EXCELLENCE WITH IMPACT

4. Strategic Plan 2010 – 2015
The Age of Bioscience
Driven by new tools
and technologies
….never before have
researchers been able to
address such a breadth
and depth of biological
questions….

5. BBSRC Strategic Plan 2010-2015

6. Strategic Plan 2010 – 2015
Three major research priorities
Food Security Bioenergy and Basic bioscience
Industrial underpinning health
Biotechnology

7. Knowledge exchange,
innovation and skills
Ensuring that our world-
class science and skilled
people have maximum
impact
Boosting the UK
economy, connecting to
policy and improving
quality of life.
• Skills and capabilities
• KE and translation
• Promoting innovation
• Culture change

8. Exploiting new ways of
working
Innovative ways of
working in an era of rapid
technology change, the
next generation internet,
and quantitative and
computational bioscience
Bioscience IS big data
science
• New tools and facilities
• Data rich bioscience
- Standards
- Sharing
- interoperability
• Systems biology

9. Partnerships
Working with our many
stakeholders and other
funders, nationally and
internationally, to deliver
our exciting vision for UK
bioscience
• Collaborative funding
• Enhancing impact
• Engaging society
• International links

10. BBSRC Funding Mechanisms
for Animal Sciences
• Research Institutes through capital investments, National
Capability awards, Institute Strategic Programme Grants
(ISPGs)
– Institute for Animal Health
– Roslin Institute
• Responsive Mode grants + Strategic grants
– HEI sector and BBSRC institutes
• Initiatives
– CIDLID: BBSRC partnership with DfID and Scottish Gov.
– 16 grants awarded. Total funding £13M
• Fellowships
• Studentships
• TSB: Sustainable Agriculture and Food Platform

11. BBSRC-DFID Initiatives
• Sustainable Agricultural Research for
International Development (SARID) - 2006
• Combating Infectious Disease of Livestock for
International Development (CIDLID) - 2008

12. CIDLID
• Budget: £13M
• Remit: to improve farm
animal health, welfare
and productivity by
enabling the more
effective, sustainable
management of livestock
diseases.
• 16 projects funded
• 7 at IAH

13. New Food Security
Research Programme
Rising to the challenge
• BBSRC is leading for RCUK on a new
Food Security research programme:
– multi-funder (RCs and Gov Depts)
– multi-disciplinary
– long term
• Established a Programme Development
Board – co-design programme and
governance

14. RC-UK
Cross-Council Programmes
Productive economy Healthy society Sustainable world
• Digital economy • Lifelong health and wellbeing • Living with environmental
change
• Resilient economy • Connected communities • Energy
• Global uncertainties • Food security
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15. Major BBSRC Investments
>£200M across
both institutes
Roslin- Livestock Genetics
Front Elevation
Pirbright Laboratory
Institute for Animal Health
Infectious Viral Diseases
of Livestock

16. Site redevelopment at IAH Pirbright –
2013- £100 million plus

17. Reference Laboratories at Pirbright
•Global presence
•Enabling capability
•World class reputation
•FAO World Reference Laboratories
•Defra Reference Laboratories
•EU Community Reference Laboratories
•OIE Reference Laboratories
Institute for Animal Health

18. FMD
• A present and continuing severe global threat
• Devastating economic, social and environmental impacts
– severe productivity losses
– disruptions in a wide range of agricultural, industrial and
social activities
– major threat to food supply
– major expense in control and re-eradication
– high cost of surveillance and emergency preparedness
Institute for Animal Health

19. World Reference Laboratory for FMD
WRLFMD:Main activities
• 24/7 Diagnostic Service
• Global surveillance
• Strain characterisation
• Vaccine matching
• Extensive library of isolates
• Test improvement, validation,
quality assurance, reagent supply
and training
• Advice
• Reports
WRLFMD
Institute for Animal Health

20. New research projects:
Africa
FMD Research programme in southern Africa
(Linking projects funded by BBSRC/DfID, Wellcome Trust,
FAO/OIE)
-Epidemiology of FMD in Tanzania
-Improved vaccines for Southern Africa
Asia
UK-Defra
-Development of full genome sequencing tools
FAO
-High-resolution molecular epidemiology of FMD in
western EurAsia
EPIZONE
-Sequencing network for European and Asian laboratories
(WRLFMD, LVRI, SAP, VET-DTU)

21. FMD control through collaboration
• Combined activity
• No duplication
• Leverage for funding
• United approach
• Already showing
success
http://www.ars.usda.gov/GFRA/

22. Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations www.wrlfmd.org
Quality Information
for
• Countries
• Regions
Supporting
• Governments
Farmers of
• Industry
Tomorrow
• Animal Health Agencies
• Farmers
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