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• IFSTAL launch and documentary film screening of "The Scottish Breed"

  

  IFSTAL is a collaboration between five higher education institutions: The University of Oxford, LCIRAH (comprising The Royal Veterinary College (RVC), The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, School of Oriental and African Studies) and …

   08 Oct 2019

  IFSTAL is a collaboration between five higher education institutions: The University of Oxford, …

• £20M investment for London Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Partnership to further fund students

  

  From 2020, 190 PhD studentships will be funded at partner institutions including The Royal Veterinary College (RVC)

   24 Oct 2019

  The London Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Partnership, (LIDo) has been commissioned for a …

• New technologies can more effectively track freshwater snails and prevent tropical disease schistosomiasis

  

  Google Earth, satellite images and drone photos can help identify which remote communities are most at risk of contracting one of the world’s worst tropical diseases – schistosomiasi

   28 Oct 2019

  Google Earth, satellite images and drone photos can help identify which remote communities are most …

• Feline Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy study

  

  Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common heritable cardiac disease in humans and cats with a prevalence of 1/500 and 1/7 respectively. HCM occurs spontaneously in cats and can cause heart failure, cardioembolic complications or sudden …

   31 Oct 2019

  Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common heritable cardiac disease in humans and cats …

• The genetic basis of pathogen resistance and gut microbiome composition in chickens

  

  The genetic basis of pathogen resistance and gut microbiome composition in chickens

   08 Nov 2019

  Increasing global demand for poultry and the expansion of poultry farming has resulted in an …

• New more accurate technique discovered for understanding joint behaviour in world’s most common musculoskeletal condition

  

  A new technique that can determine joint behaviour in health and in conditions such as osteoarthritis with more accuracy than ever before has been created by researchers. A broad coalition of life and physical scientists from the Royal Veterinary …

   25 Nov 2019

  A new technique that can determine joint behaviour in health and in conditions such as …

• RVC joins prestigious network to preserve the UK’s reputation for world-leading research

  

  The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has today announced it has joined the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN), in collaboration with nine other leading UK universities

   11 Dec 2019

  The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has today announced it has joined the UK Reproducibility Network …

• RVC Professor Awarded for Outstanding Contribution to Animal Research

  

  Professor Dominic Wells of the Royal Veterinary College was presented with a prestigious award at the annual Openness Awards

   05 Dec 2019

  Professor Dominic Wells of the Royal Veterinary College was presented with a prestigious award at …

• Ancient bus-sized crocodile had extra vertebra to assist movement, new study shows

  

  An ancient caiman that weighed as much as an Asian elephant (3 tonnes) and almost was as long as a bus (8 metres) had unique specialisations to help it move, a new study shows. The Royal Veterinary College’s (RVC) Professor John Hutchinson joined …

   17 Dec 2019

• Coming along in leaps and bounds – crocodiles can gallop but alligators can’t, new study finds

  

  It’s a motion more closely associated with horses, but researchers have found that more species of crocodiles can gallop than previously thought. The study, which was led by the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), also discovered that by contrast …

   17 Dec 2019