Paul-Pierre Pastoret
Born in Spa in 1946, Paul-Pierre Pastoret obtained his Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Liège in 1970. He began his career as an assistant in the infectious diseases department of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Liège, before pursuing post-doctoral studies in 1978 at the University of Saskatoon in Canada and Cornell University in the USA.
Upon his return in 1979, he was appointed Lecturer in Virology, Immunology and Viral Disease Pathology, then Professor, Professor Ordinary in 1988 and Professor Extraordinaire in 2002. He specializes in virology, immunology and vaccinology, and his research interests include infectious bovine rhinotracheitis and other bovine herpesvirus infections, Pestivirus and Rotavirus infections in cattle, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Paul-Pierre Pastoret has developed a protocol for orally vaccinating fox populations with a recombinant vaccinia-rage vac
cine. Vaccination campaigns carried out using this protocol led to the official elimination of vulpine rabies in Belgium in 2001.
He was appointed Professor Emeritus in 2006. In addition to his teaching and research activities at the University of Liège, Paul-Pierre Pastoret was also Director of the Institute for Animal Health, part of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council in Compton, Pirbright and Edinburgh (NPU), Great Britain from 2002 to 2006. He was also Director of Publications at the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) in Paris from 2006 to 2010. He was instrumental in the global eradication of Rinderpest, officially declared by the OIE and FAO in 2011.
Paul-Pierre Pastoret was the founding President of the European Society of Veterinary Virology (ESVV). He passed away in April 2015, and has over 900 publications to his credit, including some major works: Veterinary Vaccinology (Elsevier), Handbook of Vertebrate Immunology (Academic Press, Elsevier); co-editor of "Rinderpest and Peste des petits ruminants: two virus plagues of large and small ruminants "( Academic Press, Elsevier).
