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• RVC part of £125 million bioscience research funding boost

  Around £15m of the funding has been awarded to the RVC and other partner organisations of the University College London (UCL) as part of the London Interdisciplinary Doctoral programme (LIDo). The funding programme will train students in world-class bioscience in areas such as agriculture, food, industrial biotechnology, bioenergy and veterinary health

   03 Oct 2014

  The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) is part of a £125 million funding programme to drive the next …

• Dirk Pfeiffer appointed Adjunct Professor at the China Animal Health and Epidemiology Centre

  Dirk Pfeiffer, Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), has been appointed Adjunct Professor at the China Animal Health and Epidemiology Centre (CAHEC).

   11 Oct 2014

  Dirk Pfeiffer, Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), has been …

• Wellcome Trust CVRT Vacation Award

  Student describes his experience after being awarded a CVRT Vacation award.

   24 Oct 2014

  RVC student, Luca Fortuna, BVetMed student), was awarded a Wellcome Trust CVRT vacation award this …

• ACT Summer Studentship - undertaken Summer 2014

  ACT Summer Studentship 2014 Olivia Lane was a second year BVetMed student, who was awarded a summer studentship this summer, by the Animal Care Trust, to undertake a research project with Professor Richard Piercy.   Olivia tells us about how the …

   24 Oct 2014

  ACT Summer Studentship 2014

  Olivia Lane was a second year BVetMed student, who was awarded a …

• Researchers from Royal Veterinary College (RVC) have found that the effectiveness of testing anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) for canine epilepsy is far below the expected standard.  

  The RVC’s canine epilepsy clinic has carried out the first ever systematic review on the efficacy of all AEDs in canine epilepsy. The aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of each individual AED by analysing all available data that has …

   27 Oct 2014

  The RVC’s canine epilepsy clinic has carried out the first ever systematic review on the efficacy …

• The simple truth behind sheepdog behaviour

  

  Sheepdogs use two simple "driving" and "collecting" rules to herd sheep. This knowledge could be used to design herding robots used for herding livestock, cleaning up the environment, and crowd control.

   04 Sep 2014

• Prize-winning VetCompass poster

  

  Four posters produced by the VetCompass team were presented at the international EVBM conference 2014. One of the posters "Exposing Pedigree Dogs using disorder prevalence data" won second prize in the poster competition. Congratulations to Dan O' …

   28 Oct 2014

• SCTS Anatomic Pathology

  Senior Clinical Training Scholarship (SCTS) in Anatomic Pathology The three year clinical training scholarship in anatomic pathology provides advanced instruction in the areas of post mortem examination, surgical pathology, immunohistochemistry and …

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• Bird movement research featured in prestigious journal

  

  Royal Veterinary College research into the movement of birds on the ground is featured in the Journal of Experimental Biology.

   29 Oct 2014

• Highlights of the 1st International Evidence Based Veterinary Medicine Conference

  

  Evidence based veterinary medicine (EBVM)  in the UK took a giant step forward with the First International EBVM Network Conference on October 23-24, 2014. The meeting was organised by RCVS Knowledge and was a huge success, with 250 delegates being …

   11 Nov 2014