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• New British Heart Foundation grant

  Dr Isabel Orriss and Professor Caroline Wheeler-Jones have been awarded a grant by the British Heart Foundation to work on Extracellular nucleotides and the P2Y2 receptor: potential targets for the inhibition of vascular calcification Arteries are …

   17 Apr 2015

  Dr Isabel Orriss and Professor Caroline Wheeler-Jones have been awarded a grant by the British …

• Professor Hutchinson joins Proceedings B

  

  Professor John Hutchinson was recently featured on The Royal Society's publishing blog, discussing his role as an Associate Editor for Proceedings B. Proceedings B is The Royal Society's flagship biological research journal and in this interview …

   22 Jun 2015

• New blog from Professor John Hutchinson's Team - Anatomy For You

  

  Happy New Year from the Structure & Motion Team! Professor John Hutchinson's research group have just launched a new blog called Anatomy To You - here's what he has to say about it: It is called Anatomy To You as its intent is to bring a wide …

   11 Jan 2016

• The launch of Equine VetCompass

  

  We are excited to announce the launch of an exciting new project - Equine VetCompass.  So far, since the start of VetCompass in 2009, our research has been primarily focused on small animal health and welfare, with data collected from small animal …

   18 Dec 2015

• Exploding myths about seed dispersal

  

  New insights into the biology and mechanics behind exploding seed pods show they don’t wait to dry out before they explode their seeds at record speeds

   02 Jun 2016

• Putting racehorse respiratory disease research back on track

  A new Horserace Betting Levy Board  grant has been awarded to the Royal Veterinary College.  The grant entitled "Putting racehorse respiratory disease research back on track" has been awarded to Dr Jackie Cardwell, Dr Carrie Roder, Dr Martin Whiting  …

   23 Feb 2016

  A new Horserace Betting Levy Board  grant has been awarded to the Royal Veterinary College.  The …

• Professor R. McNeill Alexander receives honorary degree

  

  The Royal Veterinary College has awarded Professor R. McNeill Alexander an honorary degree for his contributions to biomechanics at the at the 2015 graduation ceremony.  Unfortunately, Professor Alexander could not attend the ceremony to collect …

   23 Jul 2015

• VetCompass at Veterinary Evidence Today 2016

  

  At the start of November, RCVS Knowledge hosted the second international evidence-based veterinary medicine (EBVM) network conference, Veterinary Evidence Today 2016, in Edinburgh. The programme featured an array of informative EBVM-themed lectures …

   22 Nov 2016

  At the start of November, RCVS Knowledge hosted the second international evidence-based veterinary …

• VetCompass at the 2017 UFAW International Symposium

  

  Dr. Jen Summers was fortunate to represent VetCompass at the recent annual meeting of the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW), which asked “Measuring animal welfare and applying scientific advances - Why is it still so difficult?”.   …

   12 Jul 2017

• VetCompass™ explores aging in males and females

  

  Given that the lives of pet dogs are so closely entwined with their owners, we can learn a lot from dogs that can help both dogs themselves and also help the human species. Humans are known to exhibit female-biased survival and multiple sex …

   08 Jun 2018

  Given that the lives of pet dogs are so closely entwined with their owners, we can learn a lot from …