European Porcine Circovirus (PCV-2) Annual Research Award Launched by Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH

18 July 2007 -- Ingelheim/Germany, Ghent/Belgium, 18 July 2007 – Today, Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health announced the launch of the European PCV-2 Award, which recognizes excellent research proposals in the area of applied immunological PCV-2 research. In total, the winners will be awarded with 75,000 Euro, three prizes of 25,000 € each will be granted to those European researchers that suggest innovative approaches in the field of swine immunology to explore Porcine Circovirus Diseases (PCVD) or PCV–2 associated diseases. With the European award Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health complements its American Annual PCV Associated Diseases Research Award Program launched in 2006 and aims to promote further scientific progress to better understand a serious disease which causes significant losses in pig farms.

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