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Chair of Animal Welfare Physiology at The Royal Veterinary College

December 05, 2003

Collaboration Between The Royal Veterinary College And Silsoe Research Institute

Professor Lance Lanyon, Principal and Dean of The Royal Veterinary College is pleased to advise all staff that the College has entered into a collaborative agreement with the BBSRC's Silsoe Research Institute. The primary objective is to work together in promoting excellence in research and teaching in the physiology of animal welfare, especially farm animals but also companion, zoo and wild animals. A secondary objective is to promote teaching and research in public health, meat hygiene and biosystems engineering with opportunities to develop biomonitoring systems to measure animal welfare.

As a result of this collaboration, a Senior Research Scientist, Professor Neville Gregory, has been appointed to the Chair of Animal Welfare Physiology at the Royal Veterinary College. Neville will spend approximately 50% of his time at the College in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences and 50% of his time at the Silsoe Research Institute developing an area of research which will be mutually beneficial to both parties.

Neville graduated from the University of Aberdeen with a 1st Class Honours Degree in Agriculture following which he gained his PhD in Animal Physiology at the University of Bristol. Since 1994, Neville has worked in both New Zealand and more recently in Australia. During this period he has been awarded research grants by a number of Producer Boards and commercial organisations.

He took up his joint RVC/SRI appointment on 1st December.

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