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Our academics are leaders in animal health, welfare and veterinary research and with your support we can shape the next generation of research and developments in animal health, welfare and global food security. 

These could include:

• Improving diagnosis, treatments and survivorship rates for animals who have cancer and in turn develop and advance ways cancer can be diagnosed and treated in humans.
• Helping recognise, monitor and treat out breaks of zoonotic diseases like the Zika virus and rabies as well as stopping the spread through research into the transmission of malaria and TB for example.
• Improving animal welfare from devising new ways to measure and improve their well-being to developing new models that reduce the need to use animals in testing.
• Helping in the fight against antimicrobial resistance through the development of rapid ‘pen-side’ tests that can diagnose bacterial infections and their resistance to antibiotics in just 15 minutes.
• Securing safer food for the future by developing better mechanisms for monitoring and controlling resistance to antibiotics used in food animal production.

We want to enable the best and brightest of students to study veterinary medicine, regardless of their financial means and to become the ambassadors and leaders of their profession.  We would also like to create veterinary professionals with a global perspective, a spirit of scientific inquiry and a strong regard for the human-animal bond. 

Your support in this area would help fund:

• Scholarships so that we can give high potential students the opportunity to study and research veterinary medicine regardless of their financial means.
• Travel Bursaries to allow students to gain experience at another Vet School, study farm animal production in another country or spend time supporting an animal charity in a developing world for example.  These will allow our students to further their knowledge and skills and develop invaluable collaborations and partnerships for the future.
• Prizes to help encourage, reward and recognise those students who have shown a particular aptitude in a certain subject or skill.

To enhance the best quality of teaching and research and ensure the very highest standards of animal welfare.  Your support in this way will help give the next generation of veterinary surgeons the best possible preparation for real-life clinical practice.

In animal health that will help monitor not only the health and wellbeing of individual animals but whole herds as well.   This will enable improved understanding of animal health and the early identification of problems in individual animals as well facilitating early warning surveillance of population threats such as the Schmallenberg virus and Bluetongue epidemics we have witnessed in recent years.