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• Helping racehorses put their best foot forward

  

  An international research team is working to understand how horseshoes affect foot skeleton stress in racehorses, in a project that is likely to benefit the racing industry and protect horses from injury. The research team, from the RVC, UQ in …

   20 Jul 2016
• Man’s Best Friend: Risk Factors for Canine Cancer (Complete)

  

  This study looked at risk factors for the major canine cancers, including environmental factors which may be markers for disease in co-habiting humans.

• New RVC research sheds light on best toys and housing to improve ferret welfare as well as those that pose serious risk

  

  A new study from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), has revealed the toys and environmental enrichments – enhancements to an animal’s environment to promote physiological and psychological wellbeing – that can directly impact ferrets’ health and …

   20 Apr 2022

  A new study from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), has revealed the toys and environmental …

• London’s ‘Knowledge Quarter’ is one of the world’s best locations for science and innovation

  

  The one-mile radius around King’s Cross railway station in north London has been revealed to contain one of the highest densities of knowledge-based businesses and science organisations in the world.

   08 Mar 2019

  The one-mile radius around King’s Cross railway station in north London has been revealed to …

• New BBSRC funded LIDo studentship awarded

  

  Congratulations to Mr Lorcan Carnegie, who has won a BBSRC- funded PhD studentship from the London Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programme (LIDo). He will join the RVC to work on a PhD research project proposed by primary supervisor Dr Sarah Hill, and …

   30 Jul 2021

  Congratulations to Mr Lorcan Carnegie, who has won a BBSRC- funded PhD studentship from the London …

• 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 MRC grant awarded

  

  A new MRC grant entitled Treatment of osteoarthritis by inhibition of aggrecanases using targeted delivery of engineered TIMP-3 has been awarded.   This Medical Research Council-funded project is a collaboration between Prof. Andrew Pitsillides (RVC) …

   22 Apr 2020

  A new MRC grant entitled Treatment of osteoarthritis by inhibition of aggrecanases using targeted …

• New research by the RVC calls for social science input into pandemic policy and response

  

  Challenges and implications for One Health research and the importance of including the social sciences in creating effective government policy to mitigate the spread of zoonotic diseases, such as Covid-19.

   11 May 2020

  A new study by the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), highlights the challenges and implications for …

• How curved are your bones? RVC study finds smart bones curve to protect against fracture

  

  How curved are your bones? RVC study finds smart bones curve to protect against fracture

   06 Mar 2020

  Bone adaptation to physiological forces at the organ level is not related to local mechanical …

• London-Liverpool alliance awarded £1.9 million to accelerate solutions to combat infectious disease and antimicrobial resistance

  

  The RVC and its partners in The Bloomsbury SET programme will bring together academic and commercial sectors to respond to One Health challenges

   22 Jul 2021

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