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• Global Challenges Research Translational Award

  RVC has been engaged on research involving a viral pathogen causing peste des petits ruminants or goat plague for many years and over the last 7, Prof Richard Kock, Dr Bryony Jones and Dr Camilla Benfield have been exploring the complexity of PPR …

   03 Oct 2019

  RVC has been engaged on research involving a viral pathogen causing peste des petits ruminants or …

• £20M investment for London Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Partnership to further fund students

  

  From 2020, 190 PhD studentships will be funded at partner institutions including The Royal Veterinary College (RVC)

   24 Oct 2019

  The London Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Partnership, (LIDo) has been commissioned for a …

• New technologies can more effectively track freshwater snails and prevent tropical disease schistosomiasis

  

  Google Earth, satellite images and drone photos can help identify which remote communities are most at risk of contracting one of the world’s worst tropical diseases – schistosomiasi

   28 Oct 2019

  Google Earth, satellite images and drone photos can help identify which remote communities are most …

• New Pet Plan Charitable Trust award

  

  Dr Rebecca Geddes has been awarded a Pet Plan Charitable Trust Pump Priming Grant to research “Is upper urinary tract stone formation in cats caused by disrupted calcium-phosphate metabolism?”   Kidney stones are a common problem in many species, …

   24 Oct 2019

  Dr Rebecca Geddes has been awarded a Pet Plan Charitable Trust Pump Priming Grant to research “Is …

• Feline Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy study

  

  Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common heritable cardiac disease in humans and cats with a prevalence of 1/500 and 1/7 respectively. HCM occurs spontaneously in cats and can cause heart failure, cardioembolic complications or sudden …

   31 Oct 2019

  Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common heritable cardiac disease in humans and cats …

• New more accurate technique discovered for understanding joint behaviour in world’s most common musculoskeletal condition

  

  A new technique that can determine joint behaviour in health and in conditions such as osteoarthritis with more accuracy than ever before has been created by researchers. A broad coalition of life and physical scientists from the Royal Veterinary …

   25 Nov 2019

  A new technique that can determine joint behaviour in health and in conditions such as …

• Angela Holder (early career researcher) awarded a grant to host a LIDO REP summer student

  

  Dr Angela Holder was awarded a grant to host a LIDO REP summer student over summer 2019.  This was for an 8 week placement that was aimed at undergraduate students from universities where the numbers of students that go on to do PhDs is low.   The …

   04 Dec 2019

  Dr Angela Holder was awarded a grant to host a LIDO REP summer student over summer 2019.  This was …

• RVC joins prestigious network to preserve the UK’s reputation for world-leading research

  

  The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has today announced it has joined the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN), in collaboration with nine other leading UK universities

   11 Dec 2019

  The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has today announced it has joined the UK Reproducibility Network …

• RVC Professor Awarded for Outstanding Contribution to Animal Research

  

  Professor Dominic Wells of the Royal Veterinary College was presented with a prestigious award at the annual Openness Awards

   05 Dec 2019

  Professor Dominic Wells of the Royal Veterinary College was presented with a prestigious award at …

• Ancient bus-sized crocodile had extra vertebra to assist movement, new study shows

  

  An ancient caiman that weighed as much as an Asian elephant (3 tonnes) and almost was as long as a bus (8 metres) had unique specialisations to help it move, a new study shows. The Royal Veterinary College’s (RVC) Professor John Hutchinson joined …

   17 Dec 2019