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Dr Sajjad met meets Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health representatives

MN Report 12:26 PM, 8 Nov, 2022
Dr Sajjad met meets Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health representatives

LAHORE: For quality foot & mouth disease vaccine production, capacity building and Research & Development. Director General (Research) Dr Sajjad Hussain met with “Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health” representatives at Foot and Mouth Disease Research Center Lahore. 

Among “Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health” representatives, Dr Nicholas Maric Bruno, Dr Tamer FeknScddic, Dr Tareq Abbas, and Dr Muhammad Alhahrawy participated. 

Director General (Research) introduced the mandate, functions and ongoing activities of the Foot and Mouth Disease Research Center. Dr Rashid Munir, Additional Director, Foot and Mouth Disease Research Center Lahore, gave a presentation regarding current vaccine production capacity, limitations and challenges. 

He also discussed challenges in disease prevention and surveillance. During the interactive session, both parties discussed possibilities of future collaborations and public-private partnerships for FMD vaccine production, capacity building, research and development. Representations also visited different sections of FMDRC Lahore.