NEAH Strategic Partners Around the World

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A critical element to the success of this endeavor is to find and work creatively with the right partners. These are organizations who share NEAH’s vision to help improve animal health and well-being through new and innovative vaccine solutions.

NEAH has sought great partners who currently have a strategic footprint in, and have shown a financial commitment toward, developing mAbs and rAbs to veterinary species immune cell targets. These partners share the vision of creating a new product development paradigm to support the logistics of producing, storing and distributing mAbs to address long neglected infectious diseases.

NEAH has targeted partners who are strategically located near customer markets to lower transportation and logistics expenses and assure that the mAbs are affordable for the vaccine researchers involved with veterinary vaccine clinical research trials.

Our Current Reagent Donors

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).CSIRO serves as Australia’s National Science Agency and partners with the research community, government and industry to “turn science into solutions”. Part of their core mission is in food security, health and wellbeing. CSIRO’s Agriculture and Food business unit had kindly donated a panel of sheep immune reagents to NEAH’s partner Pentland Immunologics.

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya. ILRI is one of the core establishments conducting research on diseases of livestock, particularly ruminants. ILRI has a long history of research into the understanding of the immune response to various pathogens, including viral, bacterial and parasitic infections. The collection of monoclonal antibodies to molecules expressed by cells of the bovine immune system were generated and characterized in the 1980s and 90s. These have become critical reagents used by livestock vaccine researchers around the world. We have signed a material transfer agreement with ILRI allowing NEAH and Pentlands Immunologics to sell the ILRI MAb reagents. The cell lines are being kept at Green Mountain Antibodies and Pentlands Immunologics for redundancy.

The Moredun Group (Edinburgh, Scotland) was started by sheep farmers in 1920 as the Animal Diseases Research Association to address diseases affecting well being of sheep in Scotland. Known today as the Moredun Group, a registered charity in Scotland, the operation of the Moredun Research Institute (MRI) is at the heart of their work. MRI is a leading research center for ruminant infectious disease research and has developed multiple vaccines that have been commercialised. In recent years, the research portfolio has expanded to swine, poultry and aquaculture. Like ILRI, MRI has developed many reagents for analysing the immune response of ruminants and additionally swine.

Our Current Manufacturing Partners

Green Mountain Antibodies (GmAb), is located in the USA and is a recognized leader in the production of rat and mouse monoclonal antibodies. GmAb currently serves as a contract manufacturer for the production of mAbs to bovine immune proteons originally developed at the renowned International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya, a world leader in livestock research. GmAb is also offering very competitive prices to enable researchers to test and evaluate these mAbs and provide useful feedback to NEAH to enable product improvement.

ImmunoTools, GmBh, is an international provider and manufacture of high quality immunological and cell biological reagents. The R&D-focus of ImmunoTools is the production of antibodies, production of recombinant proteins in E. coli, HEK, CHO, and COS cells, high-troughput-screening systems for the generation of functional antibodies by using automatic multi-colour-flow cytometric method, development of antibody arrays, and MELC (multi epitope ligand cartography) technologies.

Strategic Partners

Pentlands Immunologics (PI), a subsidiary of the Moredun Research Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, is a not-for-profit ‘sister’ organization that shares NEAH’s mission to ensuring a sustainable supply of validated immunological reagents to the veterinary research community. PI is designed in many ways to be a mirror of NEAH, providing redundancy in curation of the collection and maintaining product stocks. This partnership will also allow NEAH access to a world renowned ruminant vaccine research community with strong ties to vaccine research on neglected animal diseases in developing countries.

Planned Future Partners

More information on these and other preferred partners will be forthcoming through news and events releases on the NEAH website.

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