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Home of Rest for Horses gives
£1.5million to equine research
The Home of Rest for Horses has awarded more than £1.5million to support 13 programmes of non-invasive research into equine ailments and a BEVA Trust seminar to improve education of horse owners in 2006.
As well as funding a number of clinical scholars, the Home supported several investigations into gene mapping and analysis and improved diagnostics for some of the most serious diseases affecting equines.
"These grants reveal just how much the Home of Rest for Horses has developed since it was founded in 1886," said chief executive and resident veterinarian Paul Jepson. "While we continue to provide
sanctuary for more than 100 retired working horses, ponies and donkeys, our mission for the 21st century is to educate horse owners in best practice management and to support the veterinary academics
as they strive to discover the causes and cures of equine disease."
"As the results of these research programmes are made public, we will also help to inform veterinarians around the world and improve the care of horses everywhere."
THE HOME OF REST FOR HORSES 2006 GRANTS PROGRAMME
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INSTITUTE |
DETAILS |
TOTAL AWARD |
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Animal
Health Trust |
The mapping
of genes involved in Recurrent Airway Obstruction RAO, using
a genome scanning approach |
£147,620 |
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Animal
Health Trust |
Comparison
of low field and high field MRI for the diagnosis of
lameness originating from the distal limb |
£130,605 |
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Animal
Health Trust |
Improved S.
equi diagnostics for the more effective management of
strangles outbreaks |
£228,150 |
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BEVA Trust |
The Home of
Rest for Horses and The BEVA Trust Seminar |
£10,000 |
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Liverpool
School of Tropical Medicine |
Preliminary
phenotypic and genotypic characterisation of moxidectin
resistance in the cyathostominae |
£58,365 |
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Royal
Veterinary College |
The role of
endothelial cell dysfunction in chronic laminitis |
£66,235 |
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Royal
Veterinary College |
Clinical
Scholarship in equine internal medicine and clinical
pharmacology |
£74,670 |
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Royal
Veterinary College |
Clinical
scholarship in equine surgery |
£74,670 |
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University
of Glasgow Veterinary |
From viral
genes to disease: Understanding the function of bovine
papillomaviral E2 proteins in sarcoid pathogenesis and
inhibiting viral replication in sarcoid therapy |
£159,561 |
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University
of Bristol Veterinary School |
Cloning,
identification and expression of the antigens causing equine
hypersensitivity to biting midges (Culicoides Dipetra,
Ceratopogonidae) |
£141,410
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University
of Glasgow Veterinary |
Chronic
respiratory inflammation in stabled horses: Non-invasive
monitoring and environmental control |
£226,432 |
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University
of Glasgow Veterinary |
Clinical
scholarship in equine clinical studies (surgery) |
£74,670 |
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University
of Liverpool |
Clinical
scholarship in equine medicine |
£74,670 |
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University
of Liverpool |
Clinical
scholarship in equine epidemiology |
£74,670 |
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TOTAL |
£1,541,728 |
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