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VetCompass at SVEPM Conference, Ghent 2015
More than 200 delegates recently attended the 2015 Annual Conference of the Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (SVEPM) in Ghent, Belgium. Experts and researchers from across the world contributed to workshops, oral and … -
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 …Dr Isabel Orriss and Professor Caroline Wheeler-Jones have been awarded a grant by the British …
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Economics of heifer rearing
A news article in the Cattle Site features an address that Dr Alana Boulton made at the recent British Society of Animal Science conference in Chester about a study in which she examines in detail the economics of heifer rearing. The outcomes of …A news article in the Cattle Site features an address that Dr Alana Boulton made at the recent …
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BSAVA support for VetCompass!
We are excited to confirm full support from the British Small Animal Veterinary Association (BSAVA) for the VetCompass programme! Founded in 1957, BSAVA is a professional body for veterinary surgeons treating companion animals. Membership … -
Streptococcal pneumonia – an emerging respiratory disease in dogs
The canine infectious respiratory disease (CIRD) group at the Royal Veterinary College is currently researching a bacterial disease that has been increasingly implicated in fatal cases of infectious pneumonia in dogs over the past five years – ‘Streptococcus zooepidemicus’. -
Social Science
PhD student Michelle Reeve has taken to social media to discuss her current project through Biotweeps. Biotweeps is an online platform with a combined blog, Twitter and Facebook presence, and each week a different biologist takes over the account … -
X-ray technology reveals a new bone in a very old fish
Scientists from the RVC’s Structure and Motion Lab use CT scanning to reveal new bone in fossil specimens of Eusthenopteron -
Professor Dirk Werling elected as Chair of the European Veterinary Immunology Group
Professor Dirk Werling has been elected as Chair of the European Veterinary Immunology Group for the next 3 years The European Veterinary Immunology Group (EVIG) was founded under the auspices of the European Federation of Immunologic Societies ( …Professor Dirk Werling has been elected as Chair of the European Veterinary Immunology Group for …
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Are you kidding me?
Researchers from the RVC, including Professor John Hutchinson, have recently supported artist-designer Thomas Thwaites in his attempt to recreate life as a goat. Thomas Thwaites testing the design of the forelimb prosthetic Thwaites has been … -
Welcome to our new team member Megan Conroy
We are excited to welcome Megan Conroy to the VetCompass team. Megan obtained her Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery from the University of Edinburgh in 2010. She worked initially in first opinion mixed practice before moving into small …