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• New Society for Reproduction and Fertility Return to Research Scholarship awarded to Dr Lisa Thurston

  

  Dr Lisa M Thurston has been awarded a Society of Reproduction and Fertility Return to Research Scholarship to work on the following project: Investigating the role of extracellular vesicles in gamete-oviductal cell communication in the female …

   12 Mar 2018

  Dr Lisa M Thurston has been awarded a Society of Reproduction and Fertility Return to Research …

• Kennel Club Charitable Trust award to VetCompass™ to explore breed-specific health in dogs

  

  The Kennel Club Charitable Trust (KCCT) has funded a 1-year project within VetCompass™ called ‘Evidence-based prioritisation of disorders using epidemiological data on dog breeds from VetCompass primary-care veterinary clinical records’. The funding …

   04 Apr 2018

  The Kennel Club Charitable Trust (KCCT) has funded a 1-year project within VetCompass™ called ‘ …

• New BBSRC Newton Fund grant awarded to Professor Liam Good

  Professor Liam Good and Dr Steven Van Winden have been awarded a grant by the BBSRC Newton Fund for "Bovine Mastitis Control by Local Administration of Polyplex Nanoparticles". There are millions of cases of mastitis annually. Mastitis can linger, …

   29 Jun 2018

  Professor Liam Good and Dr Steven Van Winden have been awarded a grant by the BBSRC Newton Fund for …

• New GplusE video

  For the past three years, researchers at the RVC (led by Prof Claire Wathes, and Prof Dirk Werling) have been involved in an European Union FP7 funded project, entitled “GplusE”: Genotype and Environment contributing to the sustainability of dairy …

   05 Oct 2018

  For the past three years, researchers at the RVC (led by Prof Claire Wathes, and Prof Dirk Werling)  …

• A multi-stakeholder approach towards operationalising antibiotic stewardship in India's pluralistic rural health system

  This study funded by the Medical Research Council, will aim at co-designing and piloting an intervention that generates an antibiotic (AB) stewardship programme to promote responsible use of ABs in West Bengal, India. This project will engage …

   30 Jan 2019

  This study funded by the Medical Research Council, will aim at co-designing and piloting an …

• Hot Dogs – VetCompass study of heatstroke in dogs funded by Dogs Trust

  

  Heatstroke is a potentially fatal, yet often preventable, condition for dogs that can be caused by confinement in hot conditions (environmental heatstroke) or from exercise (exertional heatstroke). Despite attempts to educate owners about these …

   06 Mar 2019

  Heatstroke is a potentially fatal, yet often preventable, condition for dogs that can be caused by …

• New Academy of Medical Sciences grant awarded to Dr Abbe Crawford

  

  A new Academy of Medical Sciences grant has been awarded to Dr Abbe Crawford to validate the use of deltaE50-MD dogs for modelling the cognitive, psychological and brain phenotype of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)  …

   26 Mar 2019

  A new Academy of Medical Sciences grant has been awarded to Dr Abbe Crawford to validate the use …

• PhD success for VetCompass researcher Dr Maddy Mattin

  

  Congratulations to Maddy Mattin who recently completed her PhD on canine degenerative mitral valve disease (DMVD), the most common heart disease in dogs. This PetPlan funded work aimed to document the prevalence of DMVD, evaluate survival …

   29 Oct 2017

• RVC academic's paper amongst the top 10% most downloadable Microbial Biotechnology papers

  A paper written by Dr Ben Swift, published in Microbial Biotechnology, has been recognised as being among the top 10% of their most downloaded papers for the period January 2018 and December 2019.  This is a great achievement, showing how this …

   30 Apr 2020

  A paper written by Dr Ben Swift, published in Microbial Biotechnology, has been recognised as being …

• New research by the RVC identifies markers for key health and productivity traits in sub-Saharan African chicken populations

  

  New study finds that birds from two distinct indigenous chicken populations (ecotypes) in Ethiopia share several genetic regions linked to important productivity and disease resistance traits

   14 Oct 2020

  A new study by the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), University of Liverpool, the University of …