Trustees of the Alborada Trust are active in support of veterinary research. At the present time grants totalling nearly £1m have been awarded to the Royal Veterinary College and the School of Veterinary Medicine at Surrey University. In addition the Trust is supporting research at Cambridge University to try and establish a much improved vaccine against the equine herpes virus EHV-1 under James Wood OBE, The ALBORADA Professor of Equine and Farm Animal Science.