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• Dirk Pfeiffer appointed Adjunct Professor at the China Animal Health and Epidemiology Centre

  Dirk Pfeiffer, Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), has been appointed Adjunct Professor at the China Animal Health and Epidemiology Centre (CAHEC).

   11 Oct 2014

  Dirk Pfeiffer, Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), has been …

• Wellcome Trust CVRT Vacation Award

  Student describes his experience after being awarded a CVRT Vacation award.

   24 Oct 2014

  RVC student, Luca Fortuna, BVetMed student), was awarded a Wellcome Trust CVRT vacation award this …

• ACT Summer Studentship - undertaken Summer 2014

  ACT Summer Studentship 2014 Olivia Lane was a second year BVetMed student, who was awarded a summer studentship this summer, by the Animal Care Trust, to undertake a research project with Professor Richard Piercy.   Olivia tells us about how the …

   24 Oct 2014

  ACT Summer Studentship 2014

  Olivia Lane was a second year BVetMed student, who was awarded a …

• Researchers from Royal Veterinary College (RVC) have found that the effectiveness of testing anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) for canine epilepsy is far below the expected standard.  

  The RVC’s canine epilepsy clinic has carried out the first ever systematic review on the efficacy of all AEDs in canine epilepsy. The aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of each individual AED by analysing all available data that has …

   27 Oct 2014

  The RVC’s canine epilepsy clinic has carried out the first ever systematic review on the efficacy …

• The simple truth behind sheepdog behaviour

  

  Sheepdogs use two simple "driving" and "collecting" rules to herd sheep. This knowledge could be used to design herding robots used for herding livestock, cleaning up the environment, and crowd control.

   04 Sep 2014

• Prize-winning VetCompass poster

  

  Four posters produced by the VetCompass team were presented at the international EVBM conference 2014. One of the posters "Exposing Pedigree Dogs using disorder prevalence data" won second prize in the poster competition. Congratulations to Dan O' …

   28 Oct 2014

• Highlights of the 1st International Evidence Based Veterinary Medicine Conference

  

  Evidence based veterinary medicine (EBVM)  in the UK took a giant step forward with the First International EBVM Network Conference on October 23-24, 2014. The meeting was organised by RCVS Knowledge and was a huge success, with 250 delegates being …

   11 Nov 2014

• RVC researchers at forefront of new zoonotic funding programme

  

  Researchers from the RVC are leading projects to tackle brucellosis in cattle in West and Central Africa, study influenza in poultry faming in Bangladesh and investigate the epidemiology and evolution of novel zoonotic hybrid schistosomiasis in Senegal and Niger

   14 Nov 2014

  The RVC has been awarded more than £5 million as part of a multimillion pound research programme to …

• New study shows resistance to most clinically relevant antimicrobials is increasing in major canine skin pathogen

  Researchers from the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals studying Staphylococcus pseudintermedius, the predominant dog skin pathogen, showed for the first time that resistance is increasing to the most clinically relevant antimicrobials.Results from a …

   24 Nov 2014

  Researchers from the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals studying Staphylococcus pseudintermedius, …

• Urban Zoonosis Meeting

  RVC researchers, Dr Barbara Haesler, Dr Paula Domínguez-Salas, Dr Pablo Alarcon, Ms Maud Carron and Professor Jonathan Rushton, attended the third annual meeting of the Urban Zoonosis Project that was held on the 11-12 of November at the London …

   27 Nov 2014

  RVC researchers, Dr Barbara Haesler, Dr Paula Domínguez-Salas, Dr Pablo Alarcon, Ms Maud Carron and …