Milestones and Accomplishments
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PRRS CAP Milestones and Accomplishments
Selected Accomplishments During the Second Year Include:
- The 2010 International PRRS Symposium (IPRRSS) 2010, which hosted 277 registered participants from 23 countries and 80 abstracts.
- Publication of “Terminology for classifying swine herds by porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus status” in 2011, January-February issue of JSHAP (Hotlkamp et al.).
- Approximately $900K of USDA funding devoted to research projects in immunology, vaccinology, epidemiology, ecology, and host genetics.
- Support for seven regional elimination projects, located in Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and Pennsylvania. Projects included significant leveraging.
- Almost $5 million dollars leveraged for the support of CAP activities. Sources of leveraging were from universities, the National Pork Board, the federal government, private companies, Canada and individuals.
- Workshops on regional elimination at Leman and AASV conferences.
- Preparation of a special issue on PRRS for Virus Research: Progress in PRRSV biology and control, Lunney and Rowland, eds.
- Recognition to Fernando Osorio for the paper, Vu et al. 2011, “Immune Evasion of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus through Glycan Shielding Involves both Glycoprotein 5 as Well as Glycoprotein 3,” as a Journal of Virology “Spotlight” feature.
- An additional $1.3 million from Genome Canada and Genome Alberta in support of the PRRS Host Genetics Consortium.
- Support for graduate students participating in PRRS research.
- Twenty-six travel fellowships for students and presenters to attend PRRS-related national and international scientific meetings.
- Support for the 2010 EuroPRRSnet meeting in Warsaw, Poland; XIIth Nidovirus Symposium in Traverse City, Michigan; Leman Swine Conference in St Paul, Minnesota and PRRS CAP/NPB Stakeholder meeting on PRRS Regional Control and Elimination.
Selected Accomplishments During the First Year Include:- Almost $900K devoted to research projects in immunology, vaccinology, epidemiology, ecology and host genetics, including the renewal of four projects
- Support for the 2009 and 2010 International PRRS Symposium, including the creation of a fellowship program that supported five non-U.S. Ph.D. students and continuing education credits for veterinarians
- Initiation and funding support for regional elimination projects in Michigan, Northern Minnesota, and Western Illinois
- Support for biosecurity tools, such PADRAP
- Creation of a set of common definitions that describe the PRRSV status of a herd
- Almost $50K awarded for the education of graduate and minority students
- Over $3 million dollars leveraged in support of CAP activities. Sources of leveraging were from universities, the National Pork Board, the federal government, private companies and individuals
- Launch of the new website, www.PRRS.org
- Delivery of workshops on diagnostics and regional elimination
- Support for the PRRS Host Genetics Consortium, a first of its kind project to study the role of host genetics
- Support for the NPB/CAP/AFRI principal investigator’s research conference
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