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• Skeletal regeneration expert joins RVC to investigate osteoarthritis gene therapy

  

  Dr Scott Roberts has joined the RVC as Senior Lecturer in Translational Skeletal Research in the Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences

   31 Mar 2020

  Dr Scott Roberts, who joins the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) as Senior Lecturer in Translational …

• Flying high: Professor at the Royal Veterinary College elected as Fellow of prestigious Royal Society

  

  Professor Alan Wilson FRS of the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, for his outstanding contributions to science.

   29 Apr 2020

• International Dog Health Workshop 2019: Summary report published

  

  VetCompass researchers attended the International Partnership for Dogs (IPFD) International Dog Health Workshop (IDHW) in 2019. A report of the meeting has been published in Canine Medicine and Genetics, which included VetCompass researchers as …

   11 May 2020

• Latest Research

  The RVC is a world-leader among research centres that investigate brachycephalic health and welfare. The RVC sees the brachycephalic issue as a highly complex system and therefore takes a holistic approach to brachycephalic research that covers …

• Lobsters, octopuses and crabs recognised as sentient beings in UK Law

  

  The UK government has declared that lobsters, crabs, octopuses and related species will be included under the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill. This paves the way for legal protection from practices like being boiled alive and having the tendons of …

   25 Nov 2021

  The UK government has declared that lobsters, crabs, octopuses and related species will be included …

• Visitor effect on Gorillas - Top 20 most downloaded paper

  

  Congratulations to Becky Lewis and co-authors on their research paper “The effect of visitors on the behavior of zoo-housed western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)” being in the top 20 most downloaded papers in the journal Zoo Biology …

   21 Jun 2022

  Congratulations to Becky Lewis and co-authors on their research paper

  “The effect of visitors on …

• Excellent results for the RVC in second iteration of the Knowledge Exchange Framework

  

  The publication of the second iteration of the Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF2) reveals strong results for the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), exceeding the peer average. This reflects the institution’s strengths in research partnerships, in …

   01 Nov 2022

  The publication of the second iteration of the Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF2) reveals strong …

• The RVC’s London BioScience Innovation Centre expands provision to Tribeca development

  

  The London BioScience Innovation Centre (LBIC) – founded in 2000 and owned by the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) – will open a new 37,127 sq. ft. (GIA) state-of-the-art innovation centre at The Apex, one of five mixed-use buildings within the ‘ …

   17 Nov 2022

  The London BioScience Innovation Centre (LBIC) – founded in 2000 and owned by the Royal Veterinary …

• Lifting laboratory rats: who uses which methods?

  Laboratory rats have better welfare when picked up using methods that support their weight, according to our recently published survey results1. Some staff pick rats up by the tail; 11% of the people in our survey did this, but many were worried …

   07 Nov 2023

  Laboratory rats have better welfare when picked up using methods that support their weight, …

• New concepts in research suggest that non-human animals also suffer boredom

  

  Dr Charlotte Burn, Senior Lecturer in Animal Welfare and Behaviour Science at the Royal Veterinary College, has recently published work suggesting that non-human animals also suffer with boredom.

   15 Aug 2017

  Boredom when it is severe and prolonged is torment to humans and can cause dangerous or criminal …