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• VetCompass study featured in Your Cat magazine

  

   The October edition of Your Cat magazine is now available, and includes some important VetCompass findings on the life-spans of our feline friends.  In the regular 'Vet's View' feature of this latest issue, highly-regarded vet Dr Bradley Viner ( …

   28 Sep 2015

• RVC researcher awarded British Veterinary Association's Trevor Blackburn Award

  

  Congratulations to Bryony Jones who has been awarded the British Veterinary Association’s (BVA) Trevor Blackburn Award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to animal health and welfare in Africa and the impact of her work in animal disease …

   01 Oct 2015

  Congratulations to Bryony Jones who has been awarded the British Veterinary Association’s (BVA) …

• Animal Behaviour and Welfare Walks and Talks event a success!

  

         This September the RVC Animal Welfare Science and Ethics group ran the annual Walks and Talks event. This is a 2-day postgraduate conference meeting for early stage researchers around the UK. It was attended by 14 from 5 universities, and …

   08 Oct 2015

        

  This September the RVC Animal Welfare Science and Ethics group ran the annual Walks and …

• Tortoise Evening - winter is coming...

  

  An evening of talks from our exotics team about tortoise care especially on the lead up to hibernation and how to avoid problems

   09 Oct 2015

  As summer ends and the nights draw in we need to start thinking about how to prepare our tortoises …

• Muscle, Power and Locomotion

  

  New research from the Structure and Motion Laboratory supports the use of single skinned muscle fibres in studies of animal locomotion.  The research, recently published in The Journal of Experimental Biology, contriubutes to Professor Alan Wilson' …

   12 Oct 2015

• Bryony Jones awarded British Veterinary Association's Trevor Blackburn Award

  

  Bryony Jones has been awarded the British Veterinary Association's Trevor Blackburn Award for outstanding contribution to animal health and welfare in Africa.

   20 Oct 2015

  Bryony Jones, a researcher in the VEEPH Group, has been awarded the British Veterinary Association' …

• Flapping-wing flight

  

  Two new papers, from Dr Richard Bomphrey's Flight Group in the Structure and Motion Laboratory, develop understanding of flapping-wing flight.  The first paper, produced by Dr Toshiyuki Nakata, proposes a new approach for studying flapping-wing …

   23 Oct 2015

• Where might a career in science take you?

  

  Example of the interesting work and professional possibilities that arise from studying STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects

   07 Apr 2015

• RVC researchers invent oral vaccine platform to combat PCV2

  

  Researchers at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) have developed an oral vaccine against Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) based on the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PCV2 is endemic in every major pig producing country, causing PCV-associated disease (PCVAD), linked with large scale economic losses.

   27 Oct 2015

  Researchers at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) have developed an oral vaccine against porcine …

• RVC research tackles endemic cattle disease

  

  Royal Veterinary College (RVC) research could enable cattle to be vaccinated more effectively against bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV), an endemic viral disease which has a considerable economic impact in the UK and elsewhere.

   28 Oct 2015

  Royal Veterinary College (RVC) research could enable cattle to be vaccinated more effectively …