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• Professor Christopher Wathes receives posthumous award for contribution to animal welfare

  The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) is pleased to announce that the late Professor Christopher Wathes OBE, previous head of the RVC's Centre of Animal Welfare, who sadly died on May 6th of this year, yesterday received posthumously the UFAW Medal for …

   24 Jun 2016

• Are critically endangered mountain gorillas at risk from human disease?

  

  Students from The Royal Veterinary College, in London, have completed research to identify if critically endangered mountain gorillas have contracted human diseases.

   08 Aug 2017

• 'Rottweilers top the lame list’ say RVC

  

  Rottweilers are the most predisposed dog breed to suffer from osteoarthritis according to new research from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC). Osteoarthritis is the most common joint disease diagnosed in dogs, and this study is the largest ever conducted into the condition in dogs under veterinary care – covering 455,557 dogs

   19 Apr 2018

• A diagnostic to determine the route of infection of Toxoplasma gondii

  

  One of the most common parasitic infections in the world is also one many people haven’t heard of. Toxoplasma gondii, a lesser-known cousin of the malaria parasite, infects all known warm blooded animals, including us, with as many as one in three …

   21 Jun 2021

  One of the most common parasitic infections in the world is also one many people haven’t heard of. …

• How did some large dinosaurs’ bodies develop?

  

  Research using computer models of the bodies of sauropod dinosaurs to examine the evolutionary history of their body shape

   30 Mar 2016

• RVC and LSHTM publish joint study evaluating the Government’s Anti-Microbial Resistance Strategy

  

  The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) together with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s Policy Innovation and Evaluation Research Unit (LSHTM PIRU) has published an evaluation study on the Government’s Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) …

   30 Apr 2020

  The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) together with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s …

• Four-thousand farms in Wales have been screened in bovine viral diarrhoea project

  

  A collaborative programme involving the RVC has been testing farms for the past six months in an effort to eradicate BVD. Of those tested, 27% have evidence of the BVD infection and some 50 have started persistent infected (PI) animal hunts on their farms.

   29 Mar 2018

• Commendation from the Royal Society of Biology

  

  Natalie Chancellor, AWSE's Research Technician now Assistant Scientist received a glowing letter of commendation after being put forward by colleagues for the Royal Society of Biology’s HE Bioscience Technician of the Year Award.  The award 'seeks …

   20 Mar 2018

  Natalie Chancellor, AWSE's Research Technician now Assistant Scientist received a glowing letter of …

• New Public Engagement activities – Results of Public Engagement £2K Competition for Contract Researchers

  Two projects have each been awarded £2,000 from the RVC’s internal competition to support public engagement projects relating to RVC research.   Dr Dan O’Neill will be using the funds to create a “Learn Zone” interactive tool on the VetCompass …

   05 Feb 2015

  Two projects have each been awarded £2,000 from the RVC’s internal competition to support public …

• Skeletal regeneration expert joins RVC to investigate osteoarthritis gene therapy

  

  Dr Scott Roberts has joined the RVC as Senior Lecturer in Translational Skeletal Research in the Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences

   31 Mar 2020

  Dr Scott Roberts, who joins the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) as Senior Lecturer in Translational …