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• Global Challenges Research Translational Award

  RVC has been engaged on research involving a viral pathogen causing peste des petits ruminants or goat plague for many years and over the last 7, Prof Richard Kock, Dr Bryony Jones and Dr Camilla Benfield have been exploring the complexity of PPR …

   03 Oct 2019

  RVC has been engaged on research involving a viral pathogen causing peste des petits ruminants or …

• £20M investment for London Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Partnership to further fund students

  

  From 2020, 190 PhD studentships will be funded at partner institutions including The Royal Veterinary College (RVC)

   24 Oct 2019

  The London Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Partnership, (LIDo) has been commissioned for a …

• New technologies can more effectively track freshwater snails and prevent tropical disease schistosomiasis

  

  Google Earth, satellite images and drone photos can help identify which remote communities are most at risk of contracting one of the world’s worst tropical diseases – schistosomiasi

   28 Oct 2019

  Google Earth, satellite images and drone photos can help identify which remote communities are most …

• New Pet Plan Charitable Trust award

  

  Dr Rebecca Geddes has been awarded a Pet Plan Charitable Trust Pump Priming Grant to research “Is upper urinary tract stone formation in cats caused by disrupted calcium-phosphate metabolism?”   Kidney stones are a common problem in many species, …

   24 Oct 2019

  Dr Rebecca Geddes has been awarded a Pet Plan Charitable Trust Pump Priming Grant to research “Is …

• Feline Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy study

  

  Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common heritable cardiac disease in humans and cats with a prevalence of 1/500 and 1/7 respectively. HCM occurs spontaneously in cats and can cause heart failure, cardioembolic complications or sudden …

   31 Oct 2019

  Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common heritable cardiac disease in humans and cats …

• An Open Letter from Professor Stuart Reid, RVC Principal

  

  It is with a rather heavy heart that I pen this note to a rather wider readership than I might have anticipated. The contents of this letter relate to the recent publication and promotion of a “naked calendar” produced by my final year veterinary …

   08 Nov 2019

• Veterinary institutions come together and commit to evidence-based veterinary medicine

  

  In a first for the profession, 15 of the major UK member organisations, vet schools and policy-making bodies – including the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) – have today come together to affirm their commitment to veterinary medicine based on sound …

   20 Nov 2019

• New more accurate technique discovered for understanding joint behaviour in world’s most common musculoskeletal condition

  

  A new technique that can determine joint behaviour in health and in conditions such as osteoarthritis with more accuracy than ever before has been created by researchers. A broad coalition of life and physical scientists from the Royal Veterinary …

   25 Nov 2019

  A new technique that can determine joint behaviour in health and in conditions such as …

• Angela Holder (early career researcher) awarded a grant to host a LIDO REP summer student

  

  Dr Angela Holder was awarded a grant to host a LIDO REP summer student over summer 2019.  This was for an 8 week placement that was aimed at undergraduate students from universities where the numbers of students that go on to do PhDs is low.   The …

   04 Dec 2019

  Dr Angela Holder was awarded a grant to host a LIDO REP summer student over summer 2019.  This was …

• RVC joins prestigious network to preserve the UK’s reputation for world-leading research

  

  The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has today announced it has joined the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN), in collaboration with nine other leading UK universities

   11 Dec 2019

  The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has today announced it has joined the UK Reproducibility Network …