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...
by Richard Mellanby | Mar 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
Research undertaken by the VitDAL was awarded a prestigious poster prize at the Annual Vitamin D workshop held in Orlando. This conference is the largest annual gathering of researchers engaged in vitamin D research. Dr Mellanby presented the VitDAL latest research on...
by Richard Mellanby | Oct 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
Dr Richard Mellanby was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons for meritorious contributions to knowledge at the inaugural FRCVS day at the Royal Institution in London. Richard’s fellowship award was in large part due to his research...
by admin | Aug 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
The VitDAL lab is actively researching how vitamin D metabolites influence the immune response. In order to allow us to examine in great detail how vitamin D modulates the immune system, we use murine models in some of our experiments when our other study systems,...
by Richard Mellanby | Apr 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
Dr Richard Mellanby was awarded the 2016 Petplan Scientific Achievement Award at BSAVA. In the award citation by David Simpson, the chairman of the Petplan Board of Trustees, highlighted that the award was in recognition of Richard’s contribution to veterinary...
by Richard Mellanby | Apr 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
The latest paper from the VitDAL was published today. Dr Mellanby’s essay in Journal of Small Animal Practice discussed the growing evidence that vitamin D can influence the biology of both skeletal and non-skeletal tissues of companion animals. The paper...
by admin | Mar 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
Research undertaken by the VitDAL was awarded a prestigious poster prize at the Annual Vitamin D workshop held in Boston. This conference is the largest annual gathering of researchers engaged in vitamin D research. Dr Mellanby presented the VitDAL initial research on...
