Dachshund Rescue UK is delighted to
announce two major
collaborations with the veterinary neurology service at the QVSH,
University of Cambridge.
We are fully funding a three year training position for a veterinary
neurologist (senior clinical training scholarship or residency),
which began in July 2021. The position was advertised, and
received many high quality applicants. Eventually the team
decided on Bruno Scalia (pictured below). Bruno is an Italian
veterinary surgeon who came to the UK in order to try to fulfil his
ambition to become a neurologist. He visited the QVSH prior to
the pandemic and made a very good impression. He has completed a neurology internship in a busy private referral hospital which gave him valuable experience, and he has already managed to author a publication in a leading veterinary journal. The team are confident he will be an outstanding neurologist, and during his residency he will be conducting a study which aims to find evidence for a surgical treatment which might reduce the
frequency of recurrences of disc disease in our breed as well as
others.
Our second project is the full funding of a one year research
project or Masters, leading to an MPhil degree for the successful
candidate. This position was advertised last year, and following a
very long process of application, interview, fulfilment of many
special conditions set by the University, and finally the granting of
a full student visa, the successful candidate is a veterinary surgeon from Colombia called Viviana Rojas (picture above). This is a potentially life-changing opportunity for Viviana, who will begin her research in October 2021. She will be working as part of Paul Freeman’s research group looking at various aspects of
intervertebral disc disease. Already this group have made some
exciting advances in the understanding of this disease, and we are hopeful that Viviana’s work will further add to the knowledgebase, and could lead to novel treatments or preventative measures in the future.
We are extremely excited about these collaborations, and are
looking forward very much to further developing our relationship
with the team at Cambridge for the benefit of our breed in
particular but also of course for the welfare of all breeds which
suffer neurological disease.
For more information on the Cambridge research into non-surgical treatment for IVDD, visit our
IVDD website.
Look out for a new webinar on the Cambridge research.
Visit
Dachshund Rescue website.
