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Latest Dogs Trust Canine Welfare Grants Awarded

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1st April, 2022 14h51

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Dogs Trust is pleased to announce the award of nine new Canine Welfare Grants for research projects focused on dog welfare. This year’s awards have been given to researchers connected with a number of institutions including the University of Edinburgh, the University of Liverpool, the Royal Veterinary College, Bristol University, The Roslin Institute and the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies.

The research will explore a range of important areas including improving behaviour consultations, tackling canine pyoderma, improving diagnosis for mobility issues, validating a grading tool for heat related illness and ameliorating separation related anxiety.

Paula Boyden, Dogs Trust Veterinary Director, says:

“As well as striving to provide the best possible welfare for the dogs in our own care, Dogs Trust also invests in funding research that aims to improve the lives of dogs for generations to come through its Canine Welfare Grants (CWG) programme. This year the projects, whilst focusing at all times on dog welfare, cover a wide spectrum of important issues and we are excited to see the outcomes.

As Chair of the Links Group, which raises awareness of the link between the abuse of people and the abuse of animals, I will be particularly interested to see the results of Sean Taylor’s retrospective study of the mechanisms and circumstances surrounding injuries sustained by domestic small animals with a focus on non-accidental injury.”

The full list of awards is as follows:

Dr Gavin Paterson BSc, PhD, FHEA - University of Edinburgh

Bacteriocins as novel tools to tackle canine pyoderma

Gina Pinchbeck BVSc - University of Liverpool

Understanding and improving behaviour consults in veterinary practice 

Professor Richard Mellanby BSc BVMS PhD - Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

Tackling antibiotic resistance through the development of point-of-care diagnostics to rationalize antibiotic prescribing

Professor Eithne Comerford MVB PhD - University of Liverpool

Longitudinal assessment of a mobility questionnaire (GenPup-M) in improving diagnosis and early intervention in dogs with, without and at elevated risk of mobility problems.

Dr Dan G. O’Neill, MVB BSc(Hons) - The Royal Veterinary College

Hot Dogs – Validating the VetCompass Clinical Grading Tool for Heat-related Illness in Dogs

Prof Emma SJ Robinson B.Sc., Ph.D - Bristol University

Use of long-chained aliphatic aldehydes in ameliorating separation-related anxiety in dogs

Sean Taylor - University of Liverpool

A retrospective study of the mechanisms and circumstances surrounding injuries sustained by Domestic Small Animals with a particular focus on Non-Accidental Injury.

Dr Stella Mazeri, BVM&S, MSc, PhD - The Roslin Institute

Use of portable virus sequencing technology to accelerate rabies elimination in dogs in Sub Saharan Africa

Simone Cutler - University of Edinburgh

Investigation of microRNA (miRNA) as biomarkers of chronic hypoxia in brachycephalic dogs

Dogs Trust’s Canine Welfare Grant scheme makes funding available for researchers to work on projects which positively impact dog welfare, focusing on disease, behaviour or healthy aging. Dogs Trust does not support any studies that require a Home Office licence for the use of animals in scientific research.

For more information, visit www.dogstrust.org.uk/help-advice/research/funding-research


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