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Metabolism of anaesthetic drugs

Deputy Head of School and Professor of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia and the Clinical Director, Kate White and British Horseracing Authority (BHA) Associate Professor of Pharmacology Stuart Paine published an article demonstrating differences between males and females on the metabolism of anaesthetic drugs.

(White, K., Aldurdunji, M., Harris, J., Ortori, C., and Paine, S. (2022). Alfaxalone population pharmacokinetics in the rat: Model application for pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic design in inbred and outbred strains and sexes. Pharmacology Research and Perspectives, 10(6).)

Genetic analysis

Associate Professor Cyril Rauch and Associate Professor in Animal Breeding and Genetics, Sarah Blott conducted research on a completely new approach to the genetic analysis of small gene effects.

(Rauch, C., Kyratzi, P., Blott, S., Bray, S., and Wattis, J. A. D. (2023). GIFT: New method for the genetic analysis of small gene effects involving small sample sizes. Physical Biology, 20(1), Article 016001.)  

Assistant Professor Sonia Gonzalez-Medina was recently interviewed by Horse and Hound about the catastrophic increase in cases of atypical myopathy and acorn poisoning in horses that is currently having a devastating impact in the UK.  

Tania Dottorini won a huge £1.6million grant from the Medical Research Council called ‘Tackling the pandemic of antibiotic-resistant infections: an artificial intelligence approach to new druggable therapeutic targets and drug discovery’.

She has also recently been nominated as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR). This is a global collaborative organisation and platform engaging 29 nations to curb antimicrobial resistance with a One Health approach.