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Clinical Sciences

Head of Department

Professor Dylan Clements

Personal Chair of Small Animal Orthopaedics, Head of Small Animal Surgery

Group Leader/Career Track Fellows

Name (sorted in descending order) Role Research Interests
Prof David Argyle Vice Principal and Head of College of Medicine & Veterinary, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

Mechanistic studies into canine disease, specifically the focus of my research is comparative cancer biology.  This involves studies on the stem cell basis of cancer through to the translation of new therapeutics into clinical development.

Clinical Research Associates

Name (sorted in ascending order) Role Research Interests
Professor Gurå Therese Bergkvist Director Student Recruitment and Admissions & Professor of Veterinary Anatomy

My research interests are in molecular pathways that become dysregulated in cancer and dysregulation of osteoclasts in bone. I have a particluar interest in oral tumours in cats, and how they invade the bone of the mandible as well as feline tooth resorption. Osteoclasts are my favourite cell, so anything related to osteoclasts and I am interested!

 

Dr Alexander Corbishley Senior Lecturer in Farm Animal Practice
  • Clinical farm animal veterinary medicine

  • Population health and metabolic status

  • Immunology and vaccinology

  • Zoonoses and antimicrobial resistance  

Prof Brendan Corcoran Personal Chair of Veterinary Cardiopulmonary Medicine

Mitral valve disease in dogs, tissue engineered solutions to sourcing valve tissue for research.

Dr Geoff Culshaw Head of Cardiology Service, Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Cardiopulmonary Medicine
  • The relationship between renal handling of salt in early diabetes mellitus and regulation of blood pressure
  • Molecular mechanisms in canine myxomatous mitral valve disease
  • Inheritance and genetics of cardiac accessory pathways in UK Labrador retrievers
  • Endothelial dysfunction in dogs in naturally occurring risk factors for metabolic syndrome
Dr Jorge Del-Pozo Personal Chair in Veterinary Anatomic Pathology

My main research interest is to improve the understanding of infectious fish disease pathogenesis and resistance, and research in pathology morphometric approaches. I also provide pathology input on a range of collaborative research projects (e.g. squirrel leprosy, canine mast cell tumour metastasis, pulmonary hypertension models, radiation induced lung injury models, and surgical approaches to canine liver biopsy sampling).

Prof Danielle Gunn-Moore Personal Chair of Feline Medicine

As a RCVS recognised Specialist in Feline Medicine, I am interested in all aspects of feline internal medicine, though I have current projects on Mycobacterial infections, feline genomics and dementia.

Dr Caroline Hahn Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Clinical Neurosciences

Neuromuscular diseases in all animals, and all facets of equine neurology.

Dr Ian Handel Senior Lecturer

The use of quantitative statistical and epidemiological methods to address questions of animal/human health and disease surveillance.

Dr Kirsty Hughes Research Assistant (Veterinary Medical Education)

Veterinary education, the student experience, assessment and feedback, student wellbeing, e-learning, educational research methods, staff development.

Professor John Keen Personal Chair of Equine Cardiovascular Medicine

The equine cardiovascular system and its relationship to endocrinological disorders such as equine metabolic syndrome and pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction.

Dr Jill MacKay Senior Lecturer

Research methodology, open science practices

Within education research: Digital education (effectiveness, utilisation and effects on experience), student learning, student experience, staff teaching experience, effective public engagement.

Within veterinary sciences: human-animal interactions, human behaviour change for animal welfare, animal support, companion animal welfare, animal welfare education.

 

 

Prof Alastair Macrae Personal Chair of Farm Animal Health and Production

Monitoring of farm animal health including the links between nutrition, health and productivity in cattle and sheep.

Mrs Yolanda Martinez Pereira Senior Lecturer in Cardiopulmonary Medicine

Clinical biomarkers of congestive heart failure in canine patients Novel diagnostic tools in canine mesothelioma Use of 4-D echocardiography in the dog

Prof Bruce McGorum Personal Chair of Equine Medicine

Equine internal medical disorders, particularly equine respiratory diseases and grass sickness.

Dr Tim Nuttall Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Dermatology

The genetics of atopic dermatitis; allergen specific immunology; antibiotic resistance, particularly meticillin-resistance staphylococci and multi-drug resistant E. coli; and responsible antimicrobial use and infection control.

Professor Rob Ogden Director of Conservation Science / Director of ECOS / Head of Conservation Genetics
Mr Maciej Parys Vet Clinical Lectureship

My current research interests include studying the role of immune checkpoints in canine and feline cancer and inflammatory disease. I am also intereted in interactions between innate and adaptive immune system in cancer patients. 

Dr Gavin Paterson Senior Lecturer in Molecular and Applied Microbiology
Dr Adrian Philbey Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Pathology

Emerging infectious diseases of domestic animals and wildlife, canine adenovirus in red foxes and dogs, salmonellosis in dogs and cats, staphylococcal infections of dogs and cats, yersiniosis in domestic and zoo animals, viral pathogenesis and oncogenesis.

Prof Scott Pirie Personal Chair of Equine Clinical Sciences

Aetiopathogenesis of equine airway disease and characterising the equine pulmonary innate immune response. Equine dysautonomia, primarily in relation to the investigation of aetiologic pathways.

Scotts currently active areas of reseach include the following:

(1) studies on equine grass sickness with a particular focus on the potential aetiological role of ingested pasture-derived mycotoxins;

(2) studies of the innate immunity of the equine airway, with a particular focus on the role of the alveolar macrophage in determining disease susceptibility;

(3) studies on the role of intestinal macrophage activation in the initiation and maintenance of gut motility disturbances following gastrointestinal surgery (post-operative ileus).

Prof Silke Salavati Personal Chair (Prof.) in Small Animal Gastroenterology, Dr.med.vet., Dipl.ECVIM-CA, PhD, FHEA, FRCVS, RCVS Specialist in Small Animal Internal Medicine (Gastroenterology)

I am interested in small animal gastroenterology, especially focusing of mechanisms of disease, clinical assessment and treatment of canine inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)/ chronic inflammatory enteropathy (CIE).

Prof Neil Sargison Personal Chair of Farm Animal Practice

Use of deep amplicon sequencing approaches to study nematode parasite diversity and co-infections. Performance of different sheep breeds and selected lines in a harsh hill environment. Changing epidemiology of trematode parasites. Population genetics of anthelmintic resistance in nematodes. Haemonchus contotus and Teladorsagia circumcincta genomics. Train-the-trainer livestock health education.  

Dr Darren Shaw Reader in Comparative Epidemiology

Comparative epidemiology of parasitic and infectious diseases and general aspects of animal health.

Dr Sarah Taylor Senior Lecture in Equine Orthopaedics

Advanced imaging of equine fractures

miRNAs and osteoarthritis

miRNAs and SNPs in equine stress fractures

 

Associate Scientists

Name (sorted in descending order) Role Research Interests
Dr Thalia Blacking Senior Lecturer in Applied Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology
Prof Karen Blissitt Personal Chair of Equine Cardiology and Anaesthesia

Equine cardiology: sudden cardiac death, 4D echocardiography, mitral and aortic valve function.  General Anaesthesia: haemodynamic effects of anaesthesia in horses. Factors affecting recovery quality in horses, perioperative mortality.

Prof Eddie Clutton Personal Chair of Veterinary Anaesthesiology
Prof Susan Rhind Chair of Veterinary Education

Veterinary medical education; specifically assessment and feedback, student support and wellbeing, e-learning and curriculum development.