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• New NERC grant: Saiga antelope mortality in Kazakhstan 2015: emergency investigation of disease outbreak to improve knowledge of drivers

  

  Professor Richard Kock has received a grant from Natural Environment Research Council for the following study: "Saiga antelope mortality in Kazakhstan 2015: emergency investigation of disease outbreak to improve knowledge of drivers" Between 10th …

   29 Jul 2015

  Professor Richard Kock has received a grant from Natural Environment Research Council for the …

• New Dogs Trust grant: Of mice and dogs: Comparison of the alterations in the metabolome associated with heart failure

  Congratulations to Dr David Connolly and Professor Adrian Boswood for their recent grant award from the Dogs Trust for the study "Of mice and dogs: Comparison of the alterations in the metabolome associated with heart failure" Approximately 320,000 …

   26 Jul 2017

  Congratulations to Dr David Connolly and Professor Adrian Boswood for their recent grant award from …

• The role of interleukin-10 (IL-10) in the regulation of innate immunity in the domestic chicken - new BBSRC grant

  Building on a recently completed Animal Research Club project, researchers at RVC and the Roslin Institute have been awarded ~£1 million to continue work focused on breeding chickens that are intrinsically resistant or resilient in the face of …

   17 Aug 2017

  Building on a recently completed Animal Research Club project, researchers at RVC and the Roslin …

• New NC3Rs grant: Development, validation and application of enhanced-welfare technology for wild small mammal research

  

  Wild small mammals (mice, voles and shrews) are studied in many research fields, including ecology, demography and conservation. Many studies of these animals rely on a traditional capture-mark-recapture approach, which involves repeated live- …

   18 Aug 2017

  Wild small mammals (mice, voles and shrews) are studied in many research fields, including ecology, …

• 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 …

• New HBLB grant awarded to Prof Simon Priestnall and Dr Alejandro Suarez-Bonnet

  

  Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the second commonest equine tumour, predominantly affecting genitalia and the eyes/periorbital tissues. These tumours typically have a guarded to poor prognosis, and a significant proportion are likely induced by …

   03 Jul 2019

  Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the second commonest equine tumour, predominantly affecting …

• Coming along in leaps and bounds – crocodiles can gallop but alligators can’t, new study finds

  

  It’s a motion more closely associated with horses, but researchers have found that more species of crocodiles can gallop than previously thought. The study, which was led by the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), also discovered that by contrast …

   17 Dec 2019

• New RVC research highlights the considerable behavioural and psychiatric effects of a mind-altering parasite

  

  A Royal Veterinary College (RVC) study, published in Trends in Parasitology, suggests that the human infection burden of Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii), a globally distributed parasitic infection, have been greatly underestimated.

   01 Oct 2020

  A Royal Veterinary College (RVC) study, published in Trends in Parasitology, suggests that the …

• RVC academic joins cross-institutional team in surveillance of new avian flu outbreak

  

  A team of academics have joined together from across the UK to monitor outbreaks of high-pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in wild birds and poultry in Europe and Central Asia and assess the mitigation measures required to limit the spread.

   25 Nov 2020

  A team of academics, including a Professor in One Health Evolutionary Biology at the Royal …

• New RVC research uses machine-learning to diagnose Cushing’s syndrome in dogs

  

  Utilising machine-learning methods in clinical practice, could contribute to improved diagnosis of Cushing’s syndrome in dogs

   12 May 2021