Boehringer Ingelheim announces annual advancement

Boehringer Ingelheim’s Advancement in the Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) Research Award Programme is set to see the awarding of three awards.

The company has announced that it will provide three $25,000 (16,729 pounds) prizes to the winning proposals for PRRS research in the the North American Free Trade Agreement region.

Candidates for the award are set to be graduate students, academic researchers, company or private researchers and practicing veterinarians, with the winner announced at the American Association of Swine Veterinarians Conference in Dallas, Texas.

Among the members of the judging PRRS Research Review Board (PRRB) – all doctors of veterinary medicine ? are Luc Dufresne from Seaboard Farms, Locke Karriker from Iowa State University and Tim Loula from Swine VetCentre in Minnesota who are are set to appear.

Once the three winning year-long research projects are completed and submitted for peer review, the PRRB will conduct a second evaluation, with the first place award recipient set to receive an additional $5,000, following acceptance.

Founded in Ingelheim in 1885, Boehringer Ingelheim saw sales in 2006 of 10.6 billion euros ? an 11 per cent increase on the year before.

The company has 38,400 employees, of which 900 are in the UK.