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• New EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie International Fellowship relating to Limb Networks awarded

  Professor John Hutchinson and colleagues have been awarded a EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie International Fellowship for Dr. Borja Esteve-Altava.  The project is entitled Limb Networks - Network Analysis of Musculoskeletal Evolution and Modularity during …

   07 Apr 2015

  Professor John Hutchinson and colleagues have been awarded a EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie …

• London-Liverpool research alliance announces new grants to further the fight against infectious disease and antimicrobial resistance

  

  The RVC, and its partners in The Bloomsbury SET programme, will bring together industry and academia to strengthen the response to global human and animal health challenges The Bloomsbury SET – a knowledge exchange programme led by the Royal …

   24 Jan 2022

  The RVC, and its partners in The Bloomsbury SET programme, will bring together industry and …

• New RVC research helps owners better understand the remaining life expectancy of dogs

  

  New research from the Royal Veterinary College’s (RVC) VetCompass programme now enables owners to predict the remaining life expectancy of their dog from different ages, with results broken down by breed and gender to make these as useful as possible for owners of many breeds in the UK. The findings also identify breeds with the greatest and lowest life expectancies of the 18 breeds in the study, highlighting wide differences in life expectancy amongst popular breeds.

   28 Apr 2022

• New VetCompass study investigates potential association between exposure to antibiotics and corticosteroids and the development of diabetes mellitus in dogs

  

  A new study at the Royal Veterinary College has investigated whether there is any association between exposure to particular classes of prescription drugs (antibiotics and corticosteroids) and the development of diabetes mellitus in dogs. …

   06 Apr 2023

• New study shows resistance to most clinically relevant antimicrobials is increasing in major canine skin pathogen

  Researchers from the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals studying Staphylococcus pseudintermedius, the predominant dog skin pathogen, showed for the first time that resistance is increasing to the most clinically relevant antimicrobials.Results from a …

   24 Nov 2014

  Researchers from the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals studying Staphylococcus pseudintermedius, …

• New EU H2020 grant: CarBon: Controlling Cartilage to Bone Transitions for Improved Treatment of Bone Defects and Osteoarthritis

  Congratulations to Professor Andrew Pitsillides, who has been awarded a new EU H2020 grant as part of the CarBon consortium.   CarBon is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (MSCA-ITN) on controlling cartilage to bone transitions …

   26 Aug 2016

  Congratulations to Professor Andrew Pitsillides, who has been awarded a new EU H2020 grant as part …

• New BBSRC grant awarded: Aetiopathogenesis and genomic architecture of resistance to claw horn disruption lesions in dairy cattle

  On any given day, lameness affects about one in three milking cows in the UK, and lameness in general is considered as one of the top 3 reasons for early replacement of cows. Lameness is therefore not only a serious direct animal welfare issue, …

   18 Dec 2018

  On any given day, lameness affects about one in three milking cows in the UK, and lameness in …

• 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 …

• New RVC research reveals dog breeds with folded ears more likely to suffer from blood blisters of the ear

  

  Aural haematoma, also known as a ‘blood blister of the ear’, is a distressing condition for dogs where the ear flaps fill with bloody fluid.

   09 Nov 2021

• New BBSRC grant: Investigating the relationship between epilepsy, drug-resistance and affective disorders in the domestic dog

  

  Investigating the relationship between epilepsy, drug-resistance and affective disorders in the domestic dog

   10 Oct 2016

  A new BBSRC grant has been awarded to Prof Holger Volk, Dr Rowena Packer and Dr Rachel Casey …