Objectiveto developed arecombinantproteinvaccine with epitopes on VP1 protein for preventionof foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) spreadingby inactive-FMDvaccine.
He's the Director of the Institute for Animal Health at the Pirbright Laboratory in Surrey, which has been doing most of the testing for MAFF and is the only place in the UK licensed to handle footandmouthvaccine.
Pigs or indeed potatoes can produce human proteins for medical use (though none has yet received authorisation), foot-and-mouth vaccine can come from alfalfa, genes from enzyme-making bacteria can do the same job in tobacco, and useful new enzymes can be found and put into old bacteria.