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...
by Richard Mellanby | May 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
This week the VitDAL said goodbye to Nadine Kamenjarin, an MSc student from Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz, who spent 3 months in the lab working with Iris on a project which aims to define the functional relevancy of altered cytokine production in vitamin D...
by Richard Mellanby | May 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
Many congratulations to VitDAL MSc student Jenny Cartwright who won the clinical scholars poster prize at R(D)SVS Research Day. Her work details her MSc studies on vitamin D receptor expression in dogs which explored the relationship between vitamin D receptor...
