BRI provides tools to accelerate research and help protect agriculture economy

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Porcine circovirus associated diseases cost pig producers around the world hundreds of millions of dollars each year…

“That’s why Kansas State University virologists Dick Hesse and Bob Rowland have been working to create new vaccines to tackle such complex diseases… Later this month, they will begin testing their next-generation vaccine against circovirus at K-State’s Biosecurity Research Institute, or BRI, in Pat Roberts Hall…

“Without the BRI, Hesse and Rowland would have to go elsewhere to conduct an experiment of this scale. They said the ability to do the research at the BRI will mean that the remedies for disease can be available to producers sooner.

“…The BRI has some unique capabilities and opportunities for our research,” Rowland said. “As a result of having access to these facilities we can accelerate our work and infectious disease research at K-State….”