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• 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

• VetCompass™ at SVEPM Conference in Estonia

  

  This year's annual conference and general meeting for the Society of Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine (SVEPM) was held in Tallinn, Estonia on 21-23 March. The VetCompass™ team engaged with the European epidemiology community to …

   24 Mar 2018

• Ophthalmology

  Brachycephalic breeds currently represent about 25% of all canine patients seen at the Ophthalmology Service at the RVC

• International Dog Health Workshop 2019: Summary report published

  

  VetCompass researchers attended the International Partnership for Dogs (IPFD) International Dog Health Workshop (IDHW) in 2019. A report of the meeting has been published in Canine Medicine and Genetics, which included VetCompass researchers as …

   11 May 2020

• Has Covid-19 continued to impact people’s decision-making when it comes to buying puppies?

  

  The Royal Veterinary College launches national follow up survey, “Pandemic Puppies – The Next Generation”, to determine whether the changing factors around the puppy buying process, which influence canine welfare, remained in 2021.

   14 Feb 2022

• Postgraduate Research Day

  

  The RVC held its Postgraduate Research Day on Wednesday 15 May 2019, which showcased the work of our postgraduate research students.  The purpose of the day was to provide our PhD and MRes students with an opportunity to communicate their work in a …

   16 May 2019

  The RVC held its Postgraduate Research Day on Wednesday 15 May 2019, which showcased the work of …

• Validating the VetCompass Clinical Grading Tool for Heat-related Illness in Dogs (In Progress)

  

  This MRes project aims to extend an earlier body of theoretical work based on general first opinion caseloads by evaluating and validating the VetCompass Clinical Grading Tool in real-world clinical cases presenting for emergency veterinary care in …

• New VetCompass paper: Common disorders in Cavalier King Charles spaniels

  

  Disorders recorded in Cavalier King Charles Spaniels attending primary-care veterinary practices in England Summers JF, O’Neill DG, Church DB, Thomson PC, McGreevy PD, Brodbelt DC. (April 2015) Canine Genetics and Epidemiology   Three major UK …

   30 Apr 2015

• Genes and environment in type 1 diabetes : a multi-species approach

  

  Professor Lucy Davison has been awarded a MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship to work on "Genes and Environment in Diabetes Mellitus: a multi-species approach".   Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) arises as the result of many different genetic and …

   29 Mar 2018

  Professor Lucy Davison has been awarded a MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship to work on "Genes and …