Research Focus Areas

Current Research Themes per section


Anaesthesiology:
  Balanced anaesthesia and analgesia in domestic and non-domestic animal

Clinical Pathology: 
Coagulation and inflammatory biomarkers in infectious diseases

Equine Medicine and Surgery:
Piroplasmosis; African Horse Sickness; equine c
olic; wound healing

Small Animal Medicine:
Babesiosis; Parvovirus; critical illness endocrinology; Spirocercosis; snake bites; animal models for diseases (babesiosis-malaria comparison)

Small Animal Surgery:
Small animal orthopaedics; wildlife surgery (e.g. craniofacial development in the growing cheetah; laparoscopic sterilisation of the lioness)

Diagnostic Imaging:

Diagnostic imaging of infectious disease animals; Wild African carnivore imaging; fetlock magnetic resonance imaging; radiation safety (e.g. scintigraphy of equines)   

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