UCD experts in €3.59m search for fluke vaccine

IRISH scientists have received funding of more than €400,000 from the European Commission, and are working to develop a liver fluke vaccine.

The UCD researchers are part of a consortium working to develop new, environmentally-friendly methods to control liver fluke disease.

Queen’s University Belfast, the Agri-food and Biosciences Institute in Northern Ireland, and partners across Europe and in South America are also involved, in a project which has overall funding of €3.59 million.