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A 232-year history of innovation

in science and clinical practice –
still making history.

The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) is the UK’s largest and longest
established independent veterinary school and is a Member Institution
of the University of London. Offering undergraduate and postgraduate
programmes in veterinary medicine, veterinary nursing and biological
sciences, the RVC is a research-led institution with 88% of its research
rated as internationally excellent or world class in the Research
Excellence Framework 2021.

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One major use of zebrafish is to increase our understanding of diseases and provide
disease models for therapeutic discovery. The RVC is able to use the zebrafish model
as a substantive body of work shows that developmental, homeostatic and metabolic
processes are highly conserved between vertebrates. Thus, data derived from our Printed on wood free
models can be extrapolated to humans and other animals. fully recyclable stock