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• Kennel Club Breed Health Symposium 2018

  

  Breed Health Co-ordinators (BHCs) are individuals appointed by dog breed clubs and councils as advocates for the health and welfare of their breed. The main role of the BHC is to facilitate the collection and communication of data on the health of …

   21 Sep 2018

• PetPlan grant awarded to Dr Rosanne Jepson

  Dr Rosanne Jepson has been awarded a grant by PetPlan Charitable Trust to work on "Phylogeny, pathogenic and antimicrobial resistance traits of E.Coli isolated from the urinary tract of cats: Associations with recurrence or persistence of …

   02 Jan 2020

  Dr Rosanne Jepson has been awarded a grant by PetPlan Charitable Trust to work on "Phylogeny, …

• RVC Brachycephalic Research Team

  

  The RVC is a world-leader among research centres that investigate brachycephalic health and welfare. The RVC sees the brachycephalic issue as a highly complex system and therefore takes a holistic approach to brachycephalic research that covers …

   25 Mar 2020

• RVC researchers win grant for vital project on coronavirus infections in companion animals

  

  The study, named MASCOT could pave the way to a greater understanding of why certain people are more susceptible to COVID-19, as well as helping to identify new treatment targets.

   27 Jul 2020

  Researchers at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) have been awarded a grant worth almost £200,000 …

• RVC lecturer awarded Physiological Society research grant to study tissue repair and regeneration

  

  Dr Caroline Pellet-Many has been awarded a prestigious research grant from the Physiological Society, available to scientists in their first academic position: https://www.physoc.org/news_article/2020-research-grant-awardees-announced/. Caroline, …

   11 Aug 2020

  Dr Caroline Pellet-Many has been awarded a prestigious research grant from the Physiological …

• Structure and Motion research presented at SICB annual conference

  

  The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) is among the most prestigious professional associations of its kind in the world, bringing together broad disciplines within the field of biology. Each year the society holds an annual …

   20 Jan 2015

• Explore VetCompass findings on UK cats!

  

  We have just released new additions to the growing collection of interactive data displays (‘infographics’) available on the VetCompass website!  These visual tools provide handy summaries of demographic information & disease prevalence estimates …

   17 Mar 2015

• Practice-based research: Editorial in the Vet Record

  

  In a recent editorial in the Veterinary Record, VetCompass team member Dan O’Neill outlines the continuing progress of veterinary practice-based research and describes the main UK projects currently leading the way in this relatively new field: ‘ …

   15 May 2015

• All cows are not the same!

  Disease susceptible calves and cows have animal welfare implications and economic consequences for the farmers due to high medication costs and loss of production. Disease resistant cattle would be a sustainable approach to reduce (preventive) …

   18 Mar 2016

  Disease susceptible calves and cows have animal welfare implications and economic consequences for …

• Pairing and sharing in V formation flight

  

  New publication reveals how birds can't 'cheat' in V formation flight by spending all their time at the back. Research published in Nature last year by the RVC Structure and Motion Lab showed that when birds are flying in a V formation, energy …

   03 Feb 2015