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We belong to the VISAVET Research Centre from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). We work in research and teaching on animal infectious diseases.

 
  • Vigiasan: Proyecto de Innovación Empleo de Tecnologías para evaluar el estado de salud, bienestar y productividad en ganado

  • VACDIVA quiere resolver el problema de la Peste Porcina Africana (PPA) en Europa y en los países afectados, desarrollando vacunas seguras y efectivas para cerdos domésticos y jabalíes, tests de diagnóstico y herramientas para estrategias de control y erradicación en Europa
  • Proyecto de Innovación "Empleo de Tecnologías para evaluar el estado de salud, bienestar y productividad en ganado"
  • Somos Laboratorio de Referencia de la Organización Mundial de la Sanidad Animal (OIE) en Peste Porcina Africana (PPA) y Peste Equina Africana PEA.
  • Realizamos el diagnóstico de los principales virus que afectan a las abejas, siendo pioneros en el desarrollo y puesta a punto de nuevas técnicas para su estudio.
  • La investigación epidemiologica de la Peste Porcina Clásica y Africana (PPC y PPA) son dos de nuestras prioridades.

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Marine Animal Health VACDIVA ASF NIFNAF

Marina Vicente Rubiano PhD Thesis

Tesis Doctoral de Consuelo Rubio Guerri

On tuesday January 26 Marina Vicente Rubiano defend her Doctoral Thesis entitled "Virological and Epidemiological analysis of Colony Collapse Disorder in Spain. Marina Vicente RubianoStudy of causes and consequences”, directed by Joaquín Goyache, Deborah Kukielka and Jose Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno.

PhD abstract

José Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno trustee of Fundación Oceanogràfic

Marine Animal HealthFrom the year 2011 the research group SUAT-VISAVET, directed by the Prof. José Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno, from the Veterinary Faculty of the UCM, carries out the research Project “Sanidad Marina” (Marine Animal Health) together with the Fundación de las Artes y las Ciencias de Valencia, and Avanqua Oceanogràfic-Ágora.

In 2016 Prof. José Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno was nominated as trustee of “FUNDACIÓN OCENAOGRÀFIC DE LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA”; and he has renew this position this year.

This project arises from the collaboration in recent years between VISAVET Health Surveillance Centre (Complutense University) and the Oceanographic. The aim is to improve the health of the Mediterranean marine fauna and, by extension, the preservation of the marine ecosystem in general.

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The Sardinian Government renews the Eradication of African Swine Fever agreement with the UCM

El Gobierno de Cerdeña renueva el convenio de erradicación de  Peste Porcina Africana  con la UCMThe Government of Sardinia has renewed the agreement initiated in 2014 for a further year; The project, that began in December 2015 and carried out by the research group SUAT - VISAVET directed by Professor José Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno, consists in developing a new, and expected to be definitive, eradication plan for ASF, in which the principal objective of the SUAT group is to advise the Government of Sardinia and its authorities scientifically and technically.