UK-US CWD workshop: Landscape modelling for livestock disease.
Lead Research Organisation:
Newcastle University
Department Name: Sch of Biology
Abstract
United States
People |
ORCID iD |
| Steven Rushton (Principal Investigator) | |
| Aileen Mill (Co-Investigator) |
| Description | Workshop on TSE diseases in wildlife was held in Colorado in June 2014 to develop collaborations with Colorado State University, USDA and AHVLA This led to a workshop in Newcastle in 2016 from which a review paper is in prep. In the meanwhile the disease has occurred in Norway and this has led to the development of a UK model for investigating disease spread. The modelling approach has been extended to investigate Parkinson's Disease and we have one paper published |
| Exploitation Route | Collaborative US-UK bid for research funding into CWD was planned. We have extended the research agenda to include Parkinsons Disease and are submitting grants to the Parkinsons Society in 2016. A paper has been published in Brain Pathology 2019. The modelling collaboration with the Prion Research Group in Alberta in 2017 did not materialise |
| Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink Environment |
| Description | We are seeking to push forward TSE research with the AHVLA. A new risk assessment for CWD in the UK is planned as a result of the workshop. A model has been developed and is under test Feb 2017. One paper is in MS form on the EU/UK risk of disease |