Cure4Aqua and IGNITION will co-host a workshop dedicated to Animal health and welfare in aquaculture: novel approaches for disease management during the 21st International Conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish held in Aberdeen (11-14 September in Aberdeen, UK). In association with Cure4Aqua, IGNITION partners will showcase and discuss the most recent methods of fish disease diagnosis and disease-prediction tools. Among other interesting subjects, participants will better understand how the COVID-19 pandemic helped boost genetic research on vaccines for aquaculture.