ILRI awards over the years: The Seré Legacy

November 2011 Awards over the years: The Seré Legacy2003 CGIAR Outstanding Scientific Article Award African pastoralism: Genetic imprints of origins and migrations, published in Science, by Olivier Hanotte, Daniel Bradley, Joel Ochieng, Yasmin Verjee, Emmeline Hill, Ed Rege (2002), the first continent-wide study of the genetic diversity of cattle in Africa.2004 CGIAR Outstanding Communications Award Smallholder Dairy Project, jointly implemented by ILRI, Kenyan Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development, and Kenyan Agricultural Research Institute. CGIAR Outstanding Scientist Award Brian Perry, ILRI veterinary epidemiologist, for innovative work on the dynamics and control of tick-borne diseases of livestock. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship ILRI postdoctoral fellow Joesph Ogutu to undertake long-term periods of research in Germany; past recipients include 35 Nobel Prize Laureates.2005 CGIAR Promising Young Scientist Award Simon Graham, ILRI molecular biologist, for seminal research leading to the development of a novel, sensitive, and robust immunological assay that screens target parasite molecules causing East Coast fever.2007 CGIAR Science Award for an Outstanding Scientific Article Teams from ILRI and the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) for their paper ‘Genome sequence of Theileria parva, a bovine pathogen that transforms lymphocytes” published in Science.2010 Member of the Order of Australia Gabrielle Persley, senior advisor to ILRI’s director general, for her service to science through advisory roles with national and international agricultural research organizations, and through support for the development of livestock health, particularly in Africa. Wilhelm-Pfeiffer Medal of the Justus-Liebig University (Giesssen, Germany) ILRI board member Dieter Schillinger for his outstanding contribution and service to promote research and innovation in veterinary medicines. World Food Prize JoLuck, former ILRI board member and ILRI collaborator, for her work for Heifer International, helping to build it into a premier hunger-fighting non-profit organization, bringing food- and income-producing animals to extremely poor families.2011 Vision 2030 ICT Innovation Award (Kenya) ILRI’s Index-based Livestock Insurance Project, a novel product for poor pastoral herders in Kenya’s Marsabit District.

ILRI awards over the years: The Seré Legacy

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