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• Bloomsbury SET - new grant awarded

  

  The Bloomsbury SET is a partnership between RVC, LSHTM, SOAS and LSE, who received a grant from Research England to support a range of activities to address the challenges of ‘pathogen emergence’ in Europe and LMIC through the Connecting …

   09 Apr 2019

  The Bloomsbury SET is a partnership between RVC, LSHTM, SOAS and LSE, who received a grant from …

• One giant leap for VetCompass™

  

  New research, based on the VetCompass™ programme at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), uses machine learning to detect false-positive disease references in veterinary clinical notes. Clinicians often include references to diseases in clinical …

   08 May 2019

• So, are crossbred dogs healthier than purebred dogs?

  The VetCompass Programme uses clinical information on 2 million dogs shared from over 450 UK veterinary practices to examine health and welfare issues. A current hot topic in canine health asks whether crossbred dogs are healthier than purebred dogs …

   23 Jun 2015

• 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 …

• Initiatives to control and eliminate parasitic disease are reaching targets earlier than projected

  

  Data, analysed by researchers, from nine national schistosomiasis control programmes, identified that the majority of initiatives acrosssub-Saharan Africa and Yemen have reached the disease-control target by two treatment rounds or less

   24 Dec 2019

  New data, analysed by a group of leading researchers, from nine national schistosomiasis control …

• While demand for brachycephalic dogs remains high, understanding whether the body shape of brachycephalic breeds can be refined to reduce the risk of conformation-related disease is of priority. RVC research in this area worked to identify conformational risk factors for common disorders, and define ‘healthy conformational limits’, thresholds beyond which the risk of disease becomes unacceptably high.

  Investigating healthy conformational limits

  While demand for brachycephalic dogs remains high, understanding whether the body shape of brachycephalic breeds can be refined to reduce the risk of conformation-related disease is of priority. RVC research in this area worked to identify conformational risk factors for common disorders, and define ‘healthy conformational limits’, thresholds beyond which the risk of disease becomes unacceptably high.

• New PetSavers grant awarded

  

  A new PetSavers grant has been awarded to Dr Jack Lawson to work on Urinary extracellular vesicles as a source of biomarkers in feline chronic kidney disease and hypertension. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and high blood pressure are very common in …

   17 Jan 2020

  A new PetSavers grant has been awarded to Dr Jack Lawson to work on Urinary extracellular vesicles …

• Bloomsbury SET grant awarded to Dr Jackie Cardwell

  

  Dr Jackie Cardwell, in collaboration with Dr Kerry Brown (LSHTM), Dr Mehroosh Tak (RVC), Dr Peter Holloway (RVC) and Professor Abdel Hakim Al Husban (Yarmouk University, Jordan) has been awarded a grant by The Bloomsbury SET to work on the project ‘ …

   16 Sep 2020

  Dr Jackie Cardwell, in collaboration with Dr Kerry Brown (LSHTM), Dr Mehroosh Tak (RVC), Dr Peter …

• Scientists collaborate to assess the impact of an infection with Mycobacterium bovis on different cow breeds

  Scientists from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia,), the Centro de Investigación y Asistencia en Tecnología y Diseño del Estado de Jalisco (Guadalajara Jalisco, México), Public Health England ( …

   16 Dec 2020

  Scientists from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y …

• 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 …