Research
People
Robert Abayasekara
Robert is a member of the Reproduction Research Group. His most recent research investigates the role of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in regulating female reproductive function.
Research Programme: Lifestyle (R&D)
Siobhan Abeyesinghe
Siobhan is currently a Research Fellow with the Centre for Animal Welfare. She specialises in social behaviour, learning and cognition, behavioural approaches to assessing sensory capacities and animal welfare.
Research Programme: Animal Welfare
Sophie Adamantos
Sophie has been a Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care in the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals (QMHA) since 2006. Her role encompasses clinical, research and teaching work. Sophie is co-head of the Section of Emergency and Critical Care. She is also co-director of the Small Animal Junior Clinical Training Scholarship (Internship) programme.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Ilknur Aktan
Ilknur is an Anatomy Demonstrator in Veterinary Basic Sciences Department.
Research Programmes: Lifestyle and Infection & Immunity
Pablo Alarcon Lopez
Pablo is a PhD student in veterinary epidemiology. His research focuses on the investigation of the epidemiology of post-weaning Multi-systemic Wasting Syndrome and on the use of research evidence by farmers for the control of infectious diseases.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Steven Allen
Steve is an Assistant Lecturer at the RVC.
Research Programme: Lifestyle (R&D)
Karin Allenspach
Karin is a Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Internal Medicine and Head of Clinical Investigation Centre at the RVC. She currently spends part of her time on clinics in the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals and the rest of her time on research and teaching. Her main research interest is in canine inflammatory bowel disease.
Research Programmes: Infection & Immunity and Lifestyle
Silvia Alonso Alvarez
Silvia is a lecturer in veterinary public health. Her research interest include the epidemiology of zoonoses and specially vector-borne diseases. She has also an interest in animal and human health in developing countries.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Clive Bate
Clive is a Lecturer for the PID department at the Royal Veterinary College. Clive’s primary research interest is in neurodegenerative diseases, specifically those caused following protein misfolding. He also has interests in membrane biology, glycosylphosphatidylinositols, membrane rafts and cell signalling.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Damer Blake
Damer is a lecturer in Molecular Parasitology. His research interests are focused on protozoan parasites and pathogens of poultry using genetics and molecular biology.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Ross Bond
Ross is a Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Dermatology at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals (QMHA)
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Adrian Boswood
Adrian is Professor of Veterinary Cardiology at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC). He is a European Specialist in companion animal cardiology.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Kathy Botham
Kathy is a member of the Lifestyle research group and her recent research examines the interaction of dietary lipoproteins with cells of the vasculature and liver.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Daniel Brockman
Dan is a Professor in Small Animal Surgery and European and American Specialist in Small Animal Surgery. He is also a worldwide provider of Continuing Professional Development.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
David Brodbelt
Dave Brodbelt is a Senior Lecturer in Companion Animal Epidemiology at the Royal Veterinary College and is a European Veterinary Specialist in Anaesthesia.
Research Programmes: Lifestyle and Infection & Immunity
Susan Brown
Sue joined the College in January 2010 as Reader in Translational Medicine. The focus of Sue's work is to understand the pathogenesis of muscular dystrophy with a view to developing future treatments. She is specifically interested in the group of muscular dystrophies now referred to as the 'dystroglycanopathies'; which are forms of neuromuscular disease characterised by the altered glycosylation of alpha dystroglycan.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Joe Brownlie
Joe Brownlie is Emeritus Professor of Veterinary Pathology in the Department of Pathology & Infectious Diseases. He currently heads up two active research groups at the RVC; one on Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Virus (BVDV) and one on Canine Infectious Coronavirus Disease (CIRD).
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Emma Buckland
Emma is a PhD student in the Animal Welfare group. Her thesis title is "Canine positive emotion: indicators, accuracy of assessments and relationship with pain perception"
Research Programme: Animal Welfare
Charlotte Burn
Charlotte is the Lecturer in Animal Welfare. Her research interests include animal perceptual abilities and how to improve animal welfare.
Research Programme: Animal Welfare
Victoria Cabrera-Sharp
Post-doctoral research associate in molecular reproductive endocrinology with specialties in veterinary science.
Research Programme: Lifestyle (R&D)
Michelangelo Campanella
Michelangelo is currently holding a position of Lecturer in Pharmacology and is affiliated Principal Investigator to the Consortium for Mitochondrial Research (UCL) http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mitochondria/.
Focus of his research activity is to assess the functional role molecules in respect of the regulation of key mitochondrial enzymatic pathways and in the experimentation of strategies to target them and define novel pharmacological treatments.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Madeleine Campbell
Madeleine Campbell is the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow in Veterinary Ethics at the RVC. She is a European and a RCVS Recognised Specialist in Equine Reproduction and the sole Partner at Hobgoblins Equine Reproduction Centre . Madeleine was the first Veterinary Surgeon to be awarded a Wellcome Trust Fellowship in Biomedical Ethics, and is using that funding to research the ethics of assisted reproductive techniques in non-human mammals. She also has a research interest in the ethics of competitive animal use.
Research Programmes: Animal Welfare and Clinical
Barbara Cannon
Barbara Cannon was appointed a part-time professor within the Systems Biology Group in 2009. She has worked on bioenergetics and energy balance in mammals and on signal transduction in brown and white adipose tissues.
Her research was initially focussed on mitochondrial metabolism and an understanding of the mechanism leading to heat production in brown adipose tissue. This involved studies in isolated mitochondria and cells. Subsequent studies concerned regulation of proliferation and differentiation of brown adipocytes through adrenergic mechanisms and characterisation of the signal transduction pathways involved. Recent studies have united these aspects on order to develop our understanding of body energy balance in intact animals.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Jackie Cardwell
Jackie is a Lecturer in Epidemiology. Her research interests include equine infectious disease, zoonotic disease, companion animal clinical epidemiology and (human) mental health. She is co-course Director for the MSc in Control of Infectious Disease in Animals (CIDA).
Research Programmes: Infection & Immunity and Lifestyle
Brian Catchpole
Brian is a Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Immunology. He is a veterinary clinical research scientist whose research involves studying canine immunology and immune-mediated diseases.
Research Programmes: Lifestyle and Infection & Immunity
Dan Chan
Dan is Senior Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care and Clinical Nutrition at the Royal Veterinary College. He is Co-Head of the Section of Emergency and Critical Care and Head of the Nutritional Support Service. He is also Director of the ECC Senior Clinical Training Scholarship (Residency) Programme.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Ruby Chang
Ruby is Lecturer in Statistics at the RVC.
Research Programmes: Lifestyle and Infection & Immunity
Peter Chantler
Peter is Professor and Chair of Veterinary Cell and Molecular Biology and directs the Graduate (Accelerated) BVetMed transitional year course. He is also a module leader on the Gateway course and leads units within the BVetMed and BScBioVetSci courses. Peter is the International Tutor for the Camden Campus. His research interests focus on regulation of molecular motors during muscle contraction and cell motility.
Research Programmes: Lifestyle and Lifestyle (R&D)
Zhangrui Cheng
Dr Zhangrui Cheng is a Research Fellow in Reproduction, Veterinary Pharmacology and Bioinformatics.
Research Programmes: Lifestyle (R&D) and Animal Welfare
Chantal Chenu
Chantal is a Senior Lecturer in Bone Cell Biology in Veterinary Basic Sciences. Her research is focused on the regulatory and repair mechanisms of bone.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
David Church
David is the Vice Principal of Academic and Clinical Affairs at the Royal Veterinary College.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Emily Clark
Emily is a postdoctoral researcher in molecular parasitiology. She is employed on the BBSRC/DfiD CIDLID project 'Anticoccidial vaccine development: the importance of genetic diversity and delivery strategy'.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Fay Clark
Fay is a PhD student in the Centre for Animal Welfare. Her research links animal cognition with welfare, and specifically focuses on whether cognitive challenges can enhance the psychological well-being of large-brained species housed in zoos.
Research Programme: Animal Welfare
Mark Cleasby
Mark is a Principal Investigator in the Cardiovascular and Inflammation Biology Group of the Lifestyle research programme. His research interests lie in Endocrinology and Metabolism and specifically in the pathogenesis of insulin resistance in tissues.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Bradley Cobb
Bradley is a Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Basic Sciences. His main research focus is on the development of the immune system.
Research Programmes: Lifestyle (R&D) and Lifestyle
David Connolly
David is head of the Cardiology Service at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals (QMHA) and is a European Specialist in Veterinary Cardiology.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Alberto Contreras Sanz
Alberto is a PhD student at the Urinary System Physiology Unit. His research studies the urothelial ATP cell signalling in the Overactive Bladder (OAB) syndrome. He is supervised by Dr Scott Wildman (University of Kent), Prof Kevin Taylor (UCL) and Prof James Malone-Lee (UCL).
Research Programmes: Lifestyle and Lifestyle (R&D)
Stefano Cortellini
Stefano is a Senior Clinical Training Scholar (Resident) in Emergency and Critical Care
Research Programme: Clinical
Liane Crowther
Liane is a PhD student working in the Centre for Animal Welfare. The focus of her research is quality of life assessment in equids.
Research Programme: Animal Welfare
Fiona Cunningham
Fiona is a Professor of Pharmacology and currently Head of the Graduate School. Her main research interest is the regulation of leukocyte and platelet activation in healthy and diseased animals.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Stephanie Dakin
Stephanie is currently undertaking PhD study in the tendon biology group, researching ‘The role of prostaglandins in equine tendinopathy' which is an Industrial CASE Studentship funded by the BBSRC and Ceva.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Vicki Dale
Vicki joined the RVC in April 2007 as a LIVE Fellow in Lifelong Learning, and became a Lecturer in Veterinary Education in April 2008. In February 2011, she took on the role of Learning Development Officer and combines this role with being a Lecturer on the PGCert/PGDip/MSc Veterinary Education courses.
She is a Registered Practitioner of the Higher Education Academy (HEA Website), a founding member of Veterinary Education Worldwide (ViEW Website), and a Fellow of the Centre for Excellence in Professional Placement Learning 2008-9 (CEPPL Website).
Research Programme: Pedagogy
Monica Daley
Monica is a Senior Lecturer in Locomotor Biomechanics, and a faculty member of the Structure and Motion Lab. Monica’s research focuses on understanding how animals move through rough or unpredictable terrain.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Emma Davies
Emma is a Lecturer in Neurology and Neurosurgery at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals (QMHA).
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Mandi De Mestre
Mandi is a lecturer in Veterinary Basic Sciences. Mandi’s research focuses particularly on the immunobiology of the maternal-fetal interface, with a particular interest in pregnancy-related conditions in the mare.
Research Programmes: Lifestyle (R&D) and Infection & Immunity
Theo Demmers
Theo is a project leader within the Centre for Animal Welfare. His current research focuses on responses of animals to changes in their environment as well as associated environmental processes.
Research Programme: Animal Welfare
Tej Dhoot
Tej’s research focuses on the regulation of normal development/regeneration and mechanisms of dysregulated growth in tumour tissues. This research endeavour takes advantage of the differential functional activities of Sulf1/Sulf2 variants discovered by their group in growth driving signalling pathways that lend themselves as therapeutic targets
Research Programmes: Lifestyle (R&D) and Lifestyle
Felicity D'Mello
Felicity is a Lecturer in Virology. She is a Molecular Virologist with interests in vaccines and bioinformatics. Currently she is working on bovine noroviruses and a newly described genus of bovine enteric calicivirus.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Julian Drewe
Julian is a Research Fellow in Veterinary Epidemiology and a European Veterinary Specialist in Zoological Medicine. He is particularly interested in finding out how diseases transmit between wildlife, domestic animals and humans.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Jay Dudhia
Jay is a Senior Lecturer in Matrix Biology in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences. His research interest in the ageing of soft tissue and involves investigations into equine tendon disease and in human osteoarthitis with a focus on the age-associated alterations of extracellular matrices and markers of early disease.
Research Programmes: Lifestyle (R&D) and Clinical
Bettina Dunkel
Since 2008 Bettina has been employed as a lecturer in equine medicine at the Royal Veterinary College.
Bettina's research interests are equine platelet function and coagulation as well as equine neonatology and all aspects of equine critical care.
Research Programmes: Lifestyle and Infection & Immunity
Jonathan Elliott
Jonathan Elliott is Vice Principal for Research and Innovation and Professor of Veterinary Clinical Pharmacology. He is a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology. His research interests encompass the pathophysiology of renal, cardiac and vascular diseases of companion animals. He belongs to the Lifestyle research programme.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Kate English
Kate is a Lecturer in Veterinary Clinical Pathology.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Andy Fiske-Jackson
Andy is a Staff Clinician in Equine Surgery at the Equine Referral Hospital. He holds the ECVS Diploma in Large Animal Surgery and Masters in Veterinary Medicine.
Research Programme: Clinical
Lyn Forster
Lyn is a PhD student in the Centre for Animal Welfare researching the welfare implications of amputation in cats.
Research Programme: Animal Welfare
Ali Fouladi-Nashta
Ali is a member of the Reproduction Research Group. His research is based on oocyte biology and embryology of domesticated and farm animal species and uterine embryo interaction and mechanism of embryo implantation.
Research Programme: Lifestyle (R&D)
Rob Fowkes
Dr Rob Fowkes is a Senior Lecturer in Endocrine Signalling within VBS. Rob's Endocrine Signalling Group investigates the mechanisms of membrane-to-nucleus signalling in endocrine tissues.
Research Programmes: Lifestyle (R&D) and Lifestyle
Mark Fox
Mark currently leads veterinary parasitology teaching at the College and has longstanding research interests in the pathophysiology, epidemiology and control of parasite infections in both domestic and wild animals.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Oliver Garden
Oliver is a Reader in Internal Medicine and Immunology. His research focuses on regulatory T cells and autoimmune disease in dogs, mice and human beings.
Research Programmes: Lifestyle and Infection & Immunity
Sophie Gauss
Sophie is an environmental biology technician working on the environmental management of pigs and fowl for the BBSRC funded project ‘Welfare of Farm Animals: Environmental Perception, Cognition, Interaction and Management’.
Research Programme: Animal Welfare
Valentina Gburcik
Research Programme: Lifestyle (R&D)
Troy Gibson
Troy is a Assistant Lecturer. His research interest includes electrophysiology, animal welfare during slaughter and vertebrate pest control.
Research Programme: Animal Welfare
Barbara Glanemann
Barbara is a Lecturer in Small Animal Medicine. She currently spends the main part of her time on the referral clinical service in the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals and the rest of her time on teaching and clinical research.
Research Programmes: Infection & Immunity and Lifestyle
Shan Goh
A Research Fellow in Liam Good's group, Shan has varied interests in antisense RNA for gene silencing in prokaryotes, phage as therapeutic agents and finding novel animal viruses with potential for zoonoses
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Liam Good
Liam is a Senior Lecturer in the Pathology and Infectious Diseases department at the Royal Veterinary College.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Jo Gordon
Jo is a PhD student in the Structure and Motion Lab under the supervision of Dr. Monica Daley in collaboration with Professor Alan Wilson. Her project funded by the BBSRC is investigating the role of pinnate muscles in mechanics and control of stable locomotion in the guinea fowl.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Sue Gregory
Sue has recently been appointed to the Chair in Veterinary Nursing with responsibility for leading the strategic development of veterinary nursing education within the collegiate, national and international arena.
Research Programmes: Pedagogy and Animal Welfare
Javier Guitian
Javier is a Professor of Veterinary Public Health and a member of the Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health Group
Research Programmes: Infection & Immunity and Clinical
Zoe Halfacree
Zoë is a clinician working in the Soft Tissue Surgery Service and is also a member of the Interventional Radiology team.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Anke Hendricks
Anke is a Veterinary Dermatologist involved in the clinical service provision at the Queen Mother Hospital. She also teaches, is involved in a variety of research projects and enjoys communicating her fascination with all things skin & ear.
Research Programmes: Infection & Immunity and Lifestyle (R&D)
John Hutchinson
John is a Professor of Evolutionary Biomechanics. Professor Hutchinson's research straddles the fields of evolutionary biology and biomechanics, with an emphasis on how very large animals stand and move and how locomotion evolved in different groups of land vertebrates.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Brendan Jackson
Brendan is a postdoctoral assistant lecturer. His main area of research relates to bone and cartilage metabolism, and in particular the use of biomarkers.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Jen Jamieson
Jen is a PhD student in the Centre for Animal Welfare exploring the views of adolescents on farm animal welfare and evaluating the role of education in improving their consideration of this issue
Research Programme: Animal Welfare
Sonja Jeckel
Sonja joined the Royal Veterinary College in 2004 and is working as Veterinary Investigation Officer for the RVC-VLA Surveillance Centre. She is responsible for carrying out post mortem examinations on farmed species and is contributing to the National Disease Surveillance. She also teaches on several undergraduate courses.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Imogen Johns
Imogen is a Lecturer in Equine Medicine, an RCVS Specialist in Equine Medicine (Int Med) and a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. She divides her time between clinical activities as a medicine clinician in the Equine Referral Hospital, teaching of undergraduate students, and research activities.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Philip Jull
Philip is a Senior Clinical Training Scholar in Neurology, working at the Queen Mother Hospital for Small Animals.
Research Programme: Clinical
Lindsay Kellett-Gregory
Lindsay is a Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care Medicine at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals (QMHA). She is also co-director of the Small Animal Junior Clinical Training Scholarship (internship) program.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Sharon Kendall
Sharon is a Lecturer in Pathology & Infectious disease and a member of the Infection & Immunity research programme.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Patrick Kenny
Patrick is a Lecturer in Veterinary Neurology and Neurosurgery at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals (QMHA) and is an American and European Specialist in Veterinary Neurology
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Muhammad Khalid
Muhammad is a Senior Lecturer in Animal Reproduction
Research Programme: Lifestyle (R&D)
Richard Kock
The postholder is working to establish and promote a One Health and conservation medicine programme including, research on emerging disease systems arising from pathogen flow between wildlife, livestock and humans. The geographical focus is Africa and South Asia and will involve working with regional and international partners. Capacity building is seen as central to achieving these goals and will include module development in professional training in UK and abroad working with partners and providing leadership in RVC teaching and post graduate programmes in wildlfie health and biology.
Research Programmes: Infection & Immunity and Pedagogy
Chris Lamb
Chris has worked at The RVC since 1992. He is Professor of Radiology and Head of the Radiology Service. He spends 50% time teaching and seeing patients in the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals. He has various administrative roles for the College, including Chair of the Finals Examination Board and Course Director for the MVetMed. Outside College, Chris has committee duties for both the ACVR and the ECVDI. He is a frequent contributor to CPD.
Research Programmes: Lifestyle and Pedagogy
Ana Lara
Ana is a lecturer in veterinary oncology. She is the Head of the Oncology service and director of the Royal Veterinary College’s ACVIM oncology residency training programme.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Rachel Lawrence
Rachel Lawrence is a Senior Lecturer in ImmunoParasitology. Her current research seeks to identify the host immunological environment that influences nematode clearance, survival and fecundity.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Charlotte Lawson
Charlotte is a member of the Cardiovascular and Inflammation biology research group. Currently she is looking into leukocyte-endothelial cell interactions and adhesion molecule signalling.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Karla Lee
Karla is a European Specialist in Small Animal Surgery. She contributes to the provision of the referral soft tissue surgery service at the Queen Mother Hospital. She enjoys the challenge of combining her clinical work with research to advance the field of veterinary surgery and teaching to promote excellence in veterinary practice.
Research Programmes: Lifestyle (R&D) and Lifestyle
Ronald Li
Ronald is a Senior Clinical Training Scholar (Resident) in Emergency and Critical Care.
Research Programme: Clinical
Vicky Lipscomb
Vicky is a Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery and Head of the Soft Tissue Surgery Service. She is a European Specialist in Small Animal Surgery and contributes to provision of the soft tissue referral service in the Queen Mother Hospital.
Research Programme: Lifestyle (R&D)
David Lloyd
Professor Lloyd holds the Chair of Veterinary Dermatology at The Royal Veterinary College and leads a clinical and research group in small and large animal dermatology. He is also an RCVS Specialist in Veterinary Dermatology and a European Specialist in Veterinary Dermatology.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Anette Loeffler
Anette is a Lecturer in Veterinary Dermatology at the RVC and is involved in providing clinical dermatology services at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals (QMHA).
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Noelia Lopez-Salesansky
Noelia is employed part time in the Named Veterinary Surgeons Service (BSU) and she is undertaking a part time phd at the Centre for Animal Welfare (VCS).
Research Programme: Animal Welfare
Virginia Luis Fuentes
Virginia is a Senior Lecturer in Internal Medicine and an American and European specialist in Cardiology. She splits her time between clinics in the Queen Mother Hospital, teaching and research.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Raymond Macharia
Raymond lectures in Veterinary Basic Sciences and is currently investigating muscle energetic capacity in enlarged muscles from Myostatin knock-out mice.
Research Programmes: Lifestyle and Lifestyle (R&D)
Gareth Maglennon
Gareth is a postdoctoral research fellow working on a BBSRC-funded project studying Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infection in pigs.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Stephen May
As Deputy Principal and Vice Principal for Teaching at the Royal Veterinary College, Stephen is responsible for academic leadership and development in all areas of teaching and learning, and CPD provision. He is a member of the College’s Senior Management Group and chairs the Learning, Teaching and Assessment Committee.
Research Programme: Pedagogy
Steven McCulloch
Steven is a veterinary surgeon, who holds a BA in philosophy. He is interested in many aspects of animal welfare and ethics, although his central focus is on the ethics, welfare and economics of animal use in agriculture and the issue of climate change and sustainable food policy.
Research Programme: Animal Welfare
Imelda McGonnell
Imelda is a Senior Lecturer in Reproduction & Development. Her current research investigates genes that are involved in the differentiation process of neural crest cells and the environmental signals that control their expression, using developing chick and zebrafish models.
Research Programmes: Lifestyle (R&D) and Lifestyle
Declan McKeever
Declan is Chair of Immunoparasitology and Head of the Pathology and Infectious Diseases department. He is also research active in the area of tick-borne diseases of livestock.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Richard Meeson
Richard is a European Specialist in Surgery and Staff Clinician in Small Animal Surgery at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals.
Research Programme: Clinical
Nicola Menzies-Gow
Since 2005 Nicola has been employed at the Royal Veterinary College as a Lecturer in Equine Medicine and divides her time between clinical work, research and teaching. Nicola was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2011.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Raphaelle Metras
Raphaelle is doing a PhD on the epidemiology of Rift Valley fever in South Africa.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
John Mitchell
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Judy Mitchell
Judy is a post-doctoral research scientist working on vaccine development for canine infectious respiratory disease (CIRD).
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Julia Molnar
Julia is a scientific illustrator and PhD/MRes student in the Structure and Motion Lab, supervised by John Hutchinson, Jennifer Clack, Renate Weller, and Stephanie Pierce. Her research focuses on reconstructing locomotion in early tetrapods.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Abir Mukherjee
Abir is a Lecturer and member of the Genes and Development, Reproduction and Lifestyle research groups. Abir's research examines TGF-β factors and how they control physiology.
Research Programmes: Lifestyle (R&D) and Lifestyle
Mandy Nevel
Mandy is a Senior Lecturer.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Stijn Niessen
Stijn is a Lecturer in Small Animal Internal Medicine with a special interest in endocrinology. He is currently involved in under- and postgraduate teaching, the internal medicine referral clinic, supervising the Internal Medicine residents and many activities surrounding diabetes mellitus and acromegaly research at the Royal Veterinary College as well as the Medical School in Newcastle.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Rob Noad
Rob is a lecturer in Molecular Virology. His current interests include molecular biology, pathogenesis and control of arboviruses, as well as applied research into insect cell based protein expression technologies.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Emil Olsen
Emil is a visiting PhD student in the Structure and Motion Lab. His research examines Equine cervical vertebral stenotic myelopathy (CVSM) and is supervised by Dr Thilo Pfau, Dr Renate Weller, Dr. Richard Piercy and Dr. Pia H Andersen.
Research Programmes: Lifestyle and Clinical
Rowena Packer
Rowena is a PhD student in the Centre for Animal Welfare researching healthy conformational limits in UK domestic dog breeds. Her research aims to investigate relationships between morphology and disease, and ultimately provide recommendations to dog breeders with regard to which body forms confer low risks of associated inherited disorders.
Research Programme: Animal Welfare
Donald Palmer
Donald is a Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Basic Sciences. His main research interests are immunosenesence, particularly with regards to age-associated thymic involution. He is also interested in the use of antibody phage display technology to identify novel markers on stem cells and cancer cells.
Research Programmes: Lifestyle (R&D) and Infection & Immunity
Olga Panagiotopoulou
BBSRC Postdoctoral Named Researcher on comparative locomotor mechanics, and Marie-Curie Research Fellow on jaw biomechanics at the RVC; and Visiting Research Fellow on jaw biomechanics, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, USA.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Neil Paton
Neil joined the RVC in 2010 and is a Lecturer in Farm Animal Health and Production. His current position is based in the Welsh Regional Veterinary Centre. There he is involoed in training of RVC students in preventative medicine. He also provides consultation services to the farming community of Wales.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Heather Paxton
Heather is a postdoctoral researcher in the Structure and Motion Lab, supervised by John Hutchinson. Her research focuses on broiler chickens.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Matthew Pead
Dr Pead's time is split between teaching, research, and the referral practice of the Queen Mothers Hospital for Animals. He is currently the RVC Academic director of professional assessement and developement, and Director of the clinical skills centre.
Research Programme: Pedagogy
Justin Perkins
Justin is a Lecturer in Equine Surgery at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC). He holds the RCVS Certificate in Equine Surgery (Soft Tissue), the ECVS Diploma in Large Animal Surgery and is a European Specialist in Large Animal Surgery
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Thilo Pfau
Thilo is currently focusing on the use of traditional (3D optical motion capture and force platforms) and innovative (wireless sensor technology) techniques to detect and quantify movement anomalies in animals, in lameness in horses, cows and dogs and ataxia in horses and dogs.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Dirk Pfeiffer
Dirk is a Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology, and Head of the Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health Group in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences. He is currently working on several projects covering animal diseases such as avian influenza, African swine fever, Rift Valley fever, rinderpest and bovine neonatal pancytopenia. He is also a Co-Course Director of the MSc Veterinary Epidemiology and MSc Veterinary Epidemiology & Public Health by Distance Learning. Dirk holds an Honorary Professorship at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Richard Piercy
Richard is a Reader in Comparative Neuromuscular Disease at the Royal Veterinary College. He heads the Comparative Neuromuscular Diseases Laboratory at the RVC. His clinical work mainly involves horses with neuromuscular problems.
Research Programme: Lifestyle (R&D)
Andrew Pitsillides
Andrew is a Professor of Skeletal Dynamics. His research aims to establish how joints develop in the embryonic limb and how skeletal tissues, adapt their structure to changes in their mechanical environment.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Geoff Pollott
Geoff is Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics and Genetics.
Research Programme: Lifestyle (R&D)
Simon Priestnall
Simon is a Lecturer in Veterinary Anatomic Pathology. His main interest is canine infectious respiratory disease. Simon gained his Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath) by examination in November 2010.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Fabio Procoli
Fabio is a third-year Senior Clinical Training Scholar in Small Animal Internal Medicine and is currently studying towards the ACVIM diploma. At the completion of his
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Jeffery Rankin
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Musculoskeletal Modeling and Simulation
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Robert Rivera
Rob Rivera is currently a PhD student at the RVC working in the fields of microbiology and immunology.
Research Programmes: Infection & Immunity and Lifestyle (R&D)
Jonathan Rushton
Jonathan is a Senior Lecturer in Animal Health Economics and a member of the Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health Group. His work focuses on improving the wellbeing of people and animals through better resource allocation to animal health, disease and welfare problems.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Claire Russell
Claire is a Lecturer in Veterinary Basic Sciences. Claire’s research uses the zebrafish, Danio rerio, for studying developmental biology and to model disorders and disease. Claire's research focusses on the nervous sytem and diseases that affect the nervous sytem such as neurodegeneration and epilepsy.
Research Programme: Lifestyle (R&D)
Andrew Rycroft
Professor Rycroft holds the chair of Clinical and Veterinary Microbiology at the RVC, is a teacher of Veterinary Bacteriology and Mycology, and a Fellow of the Society of Biology and the Royal College of Pathologists.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Carola Sauter-Louis
Carola’s main role is to coordinate a research project on Bovine Neonatal Pancytopenia (BNP) in Germany. Therefore she is based in Germany, but associated with the Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health Group. Her job includes coordination of students working on this project, keeping in touch with farmers and veterinarians within Germany, updating them on the situation and collecting data from the farms. Also she is in touch with researchers within Germany and internationally on this subject.
Research Programme: Clinical
Silke Schmitz
Started 2009 as PhD student supervised by Dr. Karin Allenspach and Prof. Dirk Werling. Title of the project: "Investigations into the efficacy of probiotics in canine Inflammatory Bowel Disease".
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Cheryl Scudamore
Cheryl is Professor of Toxicologic Pathology at the Royal Veterinary College and is an RCVS Specialist in Veterinary Pathology. She is currently funded by an MRC Skills Gap award with the aim of increasing training opportunities in laboratory animal pathology and knowledge transfer of good pathology practices between industry.
Research Programmes: Lifestyle and Infection & Immunity
Christopher Seymour
Christopher is a Lecturer within Veterinary Clinical Sciences.
Research Programmes: Clinical and Pedagogy
Md. Mahmudul Sikder
Mahmudul Sikder is a Commonwealth Scholar doing his PhD under Dr. Sharon Kendall and Professor Neil Stokers' supervision.
His research involves investigating the role of TetR regulator in the virulence and persistence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis using the model of M. smegmatis and M. bovis.
Research Programmes: Infection & Immunity and Lifestyle
Ayona Silva-Fletcher
Ayona is the Course Director for MSc Veterinary Education and is a LIVE group member working within the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences. She is currently working on several projects that include collaborations with Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Afghanistan, Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark. Ayona is passionate about distance and online education and the international outreach of the RVC and is a Fellow of the Centre for Distance Education at the University of London.
Research Programme: Pedagogy
Yogesh Singh
Yogesh is currently working as a Post-doctoral Researcher with Dr. Bradley Cobb in miRNA and Lymphocyte Development group
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Josh Slater
Josh is a Professor of Equine Clinical Studies at the Royal Veterinary College. He is currently the head of the equine clinical group, and is the immediate past president of the British Equine Veterinary Association (BEVA).
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Ken Smith
Ken is Professor of Companion Animal Pathology at the Royal Veterinary College. His research interests include infectious diseases in horses and neoplasia in small animals.
Research Programmes: Infection & Immunity and Lifestyle
Roger Smith
Roger is Professor of Equine Orthopaedics at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC). He currently divides his time equally between running a specialist orthopaedic service within the RVC and continuing to direct research into equine tendon disease
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Andrew Spence
Andrew Spence is an RCUK Academic Research Fellow in biomechanics.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Katharina Staerk
Katharina is Professor of Veterinary Public Health Management
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Sandra Starke
Sandra is a PhD student in the Structure and Motion Lab, supervised by Thilo Pfau and Stephen May. Her research focuses on improving subjective and objective lameness quantification.
Research Programmes: Lifestyle (R&D) and Clinical
Marinos Stavrou
Marinos is a PhD student within the Structure and Motion Lab, supervised by Jim Usherwood. His research focuses on the aerodynamics of birds.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Anneliese Stell
Anneliese is a Lecturer in small animal medicine at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals (QMHA) and is particularly interested in oncology clinical research
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Kim Stevens
Kim is an Assistant Lecturer in Epidemiology. Her research interests include the epidemiology of vector-borne diseases, the effect of climate change on the epidemiology of disease and spatial modelling.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Brian Summers
Brian is the Professor of Comparative Neuropathology at the Royal Veterinary College. His textbook of Veterinary Neuropathology was written with Professors John Cummings and Alexander de Lahunta. In addition, he has published over 140 papers.
Research Programmes: Lifestyle and Infection & Immunity
Harriet Syme
Harriet is a Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Internal Medicine. She is currently director of the Royal Veterinary College’s Internal Medicine residency (SCTS) programme and supervises several PhD students working on clinically-based projects.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Angela Taylor
Angela is a Senior Clinical Training Scholar in the Oncology Service at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals.
Research Programme: Clinical
Carole Thomas
Carole is a Research Associate within the Pathology and Infectious Diseases Department.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Lisa Thurston
Lisa is a member of the Reproductive Sciences research group and her recent research examines the biochemistry and genetics of male and female reproductive tissues.
Research Programme: Lifestyle (R&D)
Mickey Tivers
Mickey is a PhD Student in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Fiona Tomley
Fiona is Professor of Experimental Parasitology in the department of Pathology and Infectious Diseases. Her research interests are centred on protozoan parasites and poultry.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Jim Usherwood
Jim is a Research Fellow in the Structure and Motion Lab. Jim's research interests cover the mechanics of both terrestrial and aerial locomotion. See his website for detail on his research.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Steven Van Winden
Steven is Senior Lecturer in Production Animal Medicine and Head of the Farm Animal Health and Production group. He spends his time split between HH campus and the WRVC (www.rvc.ac.uk/wrvc)
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Martina Velasova
Martina is a Research Assistant within Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health Group. Her research is mainly focused on epidemiology of pig diseases such as post weaning multi-systemic wasting syndrome (PMWS), swine Influenza and porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome. Currently she is also involved in a dairy cow project. Her interest also includes zoonoses and veterinary public helath.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Kristien Verheyen
Kristien is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Epidemiology. Her research focuses on equine epidemiology, with projects on musculoskeletal injuries in racehorses, epidemiology of common clinical disorders in the UK horse population and health and welfare of working horses overseas.
Research Programmes: Lifestyle and Animal Welfare
Holger Volk
Holger is Head of Small Animal Medicine and Surgery group & the Neurology & Neurosurgery service and currently a Senior Lecturer in Neurology and Neurosurgery at the Royal Veterinary College. He is a recognised RCVS and European Specialist in Veterinary Neurology. His main research interests are Chiari-like malformation and syringomyelia and the treatment of canine and feline epilepsy.
Research Programme: Lifestyle (R&D)
Christopher Wathes
I am a research scientist, who has worked for my entire career in agricultural and veterinary science. My interests are broad, ranging from animal welfare to environmental physics, taking in agricultural engineering, environmental biology and veterinary ethics along the way.
Research Programme: Animal Welfare
Claire Wathes
Claire is a member of the Reproduction Research Group. Her research is based on ruminant reproduction, most recently investingating metabolic effects on the reproductive tract environment.
Research Programme: Lifestyle (R&D)
Renate Weller
Renate is a senior lecturer in large animal diagnostic imaging dividing her time between clinical work, research and teaching in large animal diagnostic imaging and locomotor biomechanics.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Dominic Wells
Dominic Wells is Professor in Translational Medicine.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Dirk Werling
I am Professor of Molecular Immunology. My current mainresearch interest is the ontogeny of the innate immune system between species, the importance of SNP in innate immune receptors for ligand binding, and how we can use our knowledge regarding the innate immune system to design new/optimise existing vaccine strategies.
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Caroline Wheeler-Jones
Caroline is a Professor of Vascular Cell Biology. Her major research interests are focused on the molecular control of endothelial cell function in health and disease.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Martin Whiting
Currently Martin is undertaking a PhD in Veterinary Ethics. His main interest is in how we treat animals and their moral status as perceived in legislation but he is also interested in the ways in which vets behave in practice. He teaches veterinary students and nurses in the ethics of dealing with the owners of the animals and of the animals themselves.
He is also involved in the VeNom Coding Group and work on the electronic patient record (CRIS) within the RVC.
Research Programme: Animal Welfare
Kim Whittlestone
Kim is a Senior Lecturer in Independent Learning.
Research Programme: Pedagogy
Barbara Wieland
Barbara is a Lecturer in Veterinary Epidemiology and strand leader of the Professional Studies Strand of the BVetMed course. She is involved in projects on African Swine Fever and leads the epidemiological part of a study into Post-weaning Multi-systemic Wasting Syndrome (PMWS).
Research Programme: Infection & Immunity
Sarah Williams
Sarah is a Lecturer in Veterinary Anatomy. Based at the Camden campus, she teaches anatomy and related subjects to students on several courses. Her research interests include functional comparative anatomy, locomotor biomechanics and pedagogy.
Research Programmes: Lifestyle and Pedagogy
Simon Wilshin
Postdoctoral Researcher in Integrative Biomechanics
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Alan Wilson
Alan is a Professor of Locomotor Biomechanics and leader of the Locomotion (Muscle, Tendon and Biomechanics) Research Group.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Thomas Witte
Tom is a Lecturer in Equine Surgery. Recognised as an RCVS, American and European Specialist, his clinical interests include head and neck surgery and minimally invasive surgery. His research focuses on the biomechanics and control of the locomotor system and upper respiratory tract.
Research Programmes: Lifestyle and Clinical
Angela Wright
Angela Wright is the assistant Lecturer in Animal Welfare and teaches on a variety of under-graduates courses at the Royal Veterinary College, University of London. She is a biologist with a keen interest in all aspects of animal welfare.
Research Programme: Animal Welfare