Lifestyle Programme
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.
Ilknur Aktan
Ilknur is an Anatomy Demonstrator in Veterinary Basic Sciences Department.
Steven Allen
Steve is an Assistant Lecturer at the RVC.
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.
Adrian Boswood
Adrian is Professor of Veterinary Cardiology at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC). He is a European Specialist in companion animal cardiology.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Victoria Cabrera-Sharp
Post-doctoral research associate in molecular reproductive endocrinology with specialties in veterinary science.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Ruby Chang
Ruby is Lecturer in Statistics at the RVC.
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.
Zhangrui Cheng
Dr Zhangrui Cheng is a Research Fellow in Reproduction, Veterinary Pharmacology and Bioinformatics.
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.
David Church
David is the Vice Principal of Academic and Clinical Affairs at the Royal Veterinary College.
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.
Bradley Cobb
Bradley is a Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Basic Sciences. His main research focus is on the development of the immune system.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Emma Davies
Emma is a Lecturer in Neurology and Neurosurgery at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals (QMHA).
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Valentina Gburcik
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.
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.
Zoe Halfacree
Zoë is a clinician working in the Soft Tissue Surgery Service and is also a member of the Interventional Radiology team.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Muhammad Khalid
Muhammad is a Senior Lecturer in Animal Reproduction
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Raymond Macharia
Raymond lectures in Veterinary Basic Sciences and is currently investigating muscle energetic capacity in enlarged muscles from Myostatin knock-out mice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Heather Paxton
Heather is a postdoctoral researcher in the Structure and Motion Lab, supervised by John Hutchinson. Her research focuses on broiler chickens.
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
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.
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.
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.
Geoff Pollott
Geoff is Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics and Genetics.
Jeffery Rankin
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Musculoskeletal Modeling and Simulation
Robert Rivera
Rob Rivera is currently a PhD student at the RVC working in the fields of microbiology and immunology.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Andrew Spence
Andrew Spence is an RCUK Academic Research Fellow in biomechanics.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Mickey Tivers
Mickey is a PhD Student in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dominic Wells
Dominic Wells is Professor in Translational Medicine.
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.
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.
Simon Wilshin
Postdoctoral Researcher in Integrative Biomechanics
Alan Wilson
Alan is a Professor of Locomotor Biomechanics and leader of the Locomotion (Muscle, Tendon and Biomechanics) Research Group.
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.
