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Name of awarding body

Title of project

Amount awarded to RVC

Dates of support

Defra and Milk Development Council

Reducing the wastage in the dairy herd

£600k

1/1/03-31/12/06

EU Framework 6 – INCODEV

Control of Rinderpest/PPR in Africa (Markvac)

45K €

1/4/04-30/3/07

Defra

Decision making at the local level during the 2001 FMD epidemic in Great Britain: Spatial, temporal and contact network analysis

£31k

1/3/04-30/2/05

Defra

Development of farm-specific biosecurity risk management strategies for dairy cattle herds and sheep flocks

£299K

1/4/04-30/3/06

DfID, UK

Development of alternative foot and mouth and tick-borne disease control strategies to benefit resource poor farmers in southern Africa

£7.7K

1/4/00-31/12/04

EU Framework 5

The role of wildlife in the epidemiology of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis in domestic ruminants in Europe

35K €

1/1/02 – 31/12/04

Dog’s Trust

Epidemiology training scholarship

£170k

1/10/03 – 310/9/07

Home of Rest for Horses

Training scholarship in Equine Epidemiology

£75K

1/1/05-30/12/07

British Poultry Council

Hockburn survey

£10k

1/3/04-30/2/05

RVC – IGS

Porcine leptospirosis postal survey

£8k

 

Defra

Sow infertility study

£46k

2003-4

RVC – IGS

Evaluation of health and production trends in UK organic dairy farms

£9,355

 

RVC – IGS

Use of immunological markers in the cerebrospinal fluid of dogs to diagnose neurological diseases

£2.7k

2004-5

Dog’s Trust

Consequences of early versus late spay of bitches

£49k

2005-6

Wellcome Trust, UK

African swine fever virus: Development of vaccines and epidemiological investigations

£2.2Mill

2005-9

BBSRC, UK

Advancing animal welfare science: Welfare assessment and early life programming

£606k

2005-10

VLA

Scrapie consultancy

£10K

2004-5

BEVA

Laminitis treatment EBVM study

??

2005-6

HBLB

Injuries to national hunt horses in training

£150K

10/03-9/06

Pfizer

Analysis of vaccination trial

£9K

2005

Grayson Jockey Club

Int’l study of racetrack fatalities

Not funded, study ongoing anyway

2005

Wellcome Trust

Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) a serious and emerging plague of small ruminants in developing countries: Epidemiology, transmission, host range and pathogenicity of the virus in West Africa

£800K

2005-7

HBLB

 

£66k

10/04 -9/05

Defra, UK

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in companion animals and association with the human healthcare sector

£150K

1/10/05-31/9/07

EU FP6

Control of paratuberculosis

105k €

 

Defra (Subcontractor to VLA)

Calf mortality as a welfare indicator in cattle farms in the UK – Phase 2

£35K

 

Defra, UK

Scrapie epidemiology

£115K

 

FAO

GLiPHA Phase 4 and epidemiological modelling of HPAI in SE Asia

US$ 40K

1/10/05-31/9/06

VLA

Scrapie consultancy

£10K

2005-6

RVC Internal grants scheme

Development of case definitions of joint injury in Thoroughbred racehorses

£4,400

10/05 – 09/06

RVC Internal grant scheme

Is Cushing’s disease a potential risk factor for bone disease in older horses and ponies?

£4K

2005-6

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