Professor Paul-Pierre Pastoret is a Doctor in Veterinary Medicine from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Liege, Belgium. He specialised in Virology/Immunology at the same Faculty and obtained his PhD in Virology. He then undertook post-doctoral studies at the University of Saskatoon in Saskatchewan, Canada before returning to the University of Liege as a Professor of Virology, Immunology/Vaccinology and viral infectious diseases.
One of his main contributions is to the development of the recombinant Vaccinia-Rabies virus vaccine for the oral vaccination of wildlife against rabies. His group was the first to deliberately release this vaccine in the environment; this vaccine largely contributed to the elimination of terrestrial rabies in several Western European countries and is also largely used in the United States.
For six years, Prof. Pastoret was a member of the board of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI, a CGIAR Institute), based in Nairobi, Kenya, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. From 2002 to 2005, he was the Director of the Institute for Animal Health (IAH) in United Kingdom then, in 2006, the scientific advisor for animal health and welfare for the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council in United Kingdom. He still is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Jenner’s vaccine Institute (University of Oxford, United Kingdom, and the Institute for Animal Health.)
He is presently emeritus Professor at the University of Liege and Head of the Publications Department of the
World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), based in Paris, France.
Paul-Pierre Pastoret is author or co-author of 840 scientific papers and editor or co-editor of many textbooks.
