IVRI In Bangalore

Hii sir, I Wants to get the Information About the Bengaluru campus of Indian Veterinary Research Institute ?

[Rajkumar Agarwal]

The Bengaluru campus of Indian Veterinary Research Institute (ICAR-IVRI) was established in 1972 by the assistance under DANIDA programme of Government of Denmark with the objective of large-scale production of Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccine

Awards And Achievement

The campus has been awarded "INTERNATIONAL GOLD STAR" award by Business Initiative Directions (BID), Madrid, Spain for FMD vaccine quality for the year 1988-1989. Over the years, IVRI Bengaluru campus contributed substantially to the revenue generation.

Activities

The current activities at this campus include:
Development of improved vaccine and diagnostics against FMD using Baculovirus expression system.
Development of Adenovirus vectored recombinant FMD vaccine.
Improving the efficacy and duration of immunity of FMD vaccine using novel adjuvant formulations.
Development of early intervention strategies for control of FMD.
Providing technical backstopping to DADF, GOI for having an effective FMD vaccine quality control mechanism for the country.
Establishing correlation between in vivo potency testing and in vitro serology based assays as an alternate to cattle challenge in vaccine quality control.
Development of attenuated FMD virus using codon de-optimization technology.


Contact Details
Indian Veterinary Research Institute
Address: Animal Experimentation Station, IVRI, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560064
Phone:080 2341 1218