by Richard Mellanby | Nov 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
Professor Richard Mellanby and Dr Iris Mair from VitDAL delivered a lecture this week in the ‘Let’s talk about health’ public lecture series held at the University of Edinburgh. They were able to discuss how their clinical work in veterinary patients...
by Richard Mellanby | Oct 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
The VitDAL presented their work at the Roslin Open Day last week. VtDAL postdoc Dr Emma Hurst developed a novel public engagement activity which introduced the concept and principles of mass spectrometry to primary school children. The initiative was a great success...
by Richard Mellanby | Oct 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
Professor Richard Mellanby was presenting recent data from the VitDAL at the China-UK Life Science and Medicine Summit which was held last week in Beijing. The meeting was organised by the Wellcome Trust and senior scientific organisations in China including the...
by Richard Mellanby | Sep 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Many congratulations to Dr Jenny Cartwright who was awarded the European Society of Comparative Gastroenterology Purina GI Health Award for best oral abstract at last week’s European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Congress. Jenny recently completed her...
by Richard Mellanby | Sep 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
VitDAL postdoc Dr Iris Mair has just returned from visiting St Kilda where she was working with colleagues from the University of Edinburgh and other academic centres on the long running St Kilda Soay Sheep project. The wild, unmanaged Soay sheep have been closely...
by Richard Mellanby | Sep 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
Richard Mellanby was presenting data from the VitDAL at the Scottish BSAVA Conference this week. He gave an overview of recent VitDAL studies on vitamin D homeostasis disorders in companion animals before talking about the lab’s ongoing research exploring the...
by Richard Mellanby | Jul 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
VitDAL postdoc Dr Iris Mair was presenting the lab’s latest research findings at the World Congress of Inflammation in London this week. Iris was invited to present her abstract as an oral presentation where she discussed some of the lab’s recent findings...
by Richard Mellanby | Jul 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
The VitDAL published a case report this week on an unusual case of hypophosphataemia in a 7 year od Greyhound which presented with muscle fasciculations. The case was very skilfully managed by a John Stewart in his practice in Cupar with input from the VitDAL team....
by Richard Mellanby | Jul 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
Many congratulations to VitDAL postdoc Iris Mair for her recent public engagement award at the Centre of Inflammation Research away day. Iris was awarded the trainee prize for public engagement 2015-2017 and is shown in photo receiving prize from Dr Donald Davidson...
by Richard Mellanby | May 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
Dr Richard Mellanby was representing the VitDAL at the 9th International Sheep Veterinary Congress (ISVC) which was held this week at Harrogate. He was presenting data from the Soay sheep project which has shown that higher vitamin D status is linked to greater...
