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• RVC celebrates milestone with 500th stored feline blood donation

  

  This month, the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) celebrated a milestone as the Blood Donor team collected its 500th stored feline blood donation. Donated by Malcolm, a nine-year-old rescued domestic shorthair cat, the day before World Blood Donor Day, this collection marked his ninth donation, which created a unit of stored feline packed red blood cells and a unit of stored feline fresh frozen plasma.

   04 Jul 2023

  This month, the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) celebrated a milestone as the Blood Donor team …

• RVC breakthrough reveals the molecular mechanisms that underlie a form of ‘tying up’ in horses

  

  Breakthrough at Royal Veterinary College as researchers reveal the molecular mechanisms that underlie a common genetic form of ‘tying up’ in horses

   03 Nov 2016

• What role do horse blood donors play at the RVC?

  

  The RVC keeps four horse blood donors who perform a vital role donating blood and plasma each month

   14 Jun 2017

• Sensor technology allows experts to enhance understanding of the relationship between lameness and back problems in horses

  

  Sensor technology is allowing experts from the RVC and Animal Health Trust to enhance their understanding of the relationship between lameness and back problems in horses

   28 Jun 2017

• Should we redefine equine lameness in the era of quantitative gait analysis?

  

  International team of researchers have strongly advised on the need to discriminate clearly between “asymmetry” and “lameness”

   05 Sep 2017

• New Equine Locomotor Research Course at the RVC

  

  New course offering farriers the opportunity to gain skills and experience in producing original research to increase the evidence base behind farriery, and enhance equine welfare.

   03 Aug 2016

• RVC hospitals shine in new Practice Standards Scheme

  

  The Royal Veterinary College’s Equine and Small Animal Referral Hospitals are among the first in the UK to be assessed under the new Practice Standards Scheme (PSS) Awards, and have been designated as ‘Outstanding’ in all categories assessed to date.

   16 Aug 2016
• Article

  Pathology Specialist Takes on New Leadership Role

  Simon Priestnall, Professor of Veterinary Anatomic Pathology, has succeeded Ken Smith (who has become head of the Graduate School) as Head of the Department of Pathobiology and Population Sciences (PPS). We spoke to Simon about his new role and developments in diagnostic pathology at the RVC.

• New RVC research finds inbreeding is contributing factor to mid and late-term pregnancy loss in Thoroughbreds

  

  New research from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), in collaboration with Cornell University, has found that inbreeding is a contributing factor to mid and late-term pregnancy loss (MLPL), but not early pregnancy loss (EPL) in Thoroughbreds. This …

   11 Mar 2024

• The RVC’s Equine Locomotor Research Course expands to the USA

  

  Grad Dip Equine Locomotor Research offers professional farriers the chance to gain the skills to produce original research which could enhance equine welfare

   26 Jun 2017