equine health research
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EHRF Research Grants: 2009-2010
What’s the best way to characterize and localize BPV? Drs. Andy Allen, Bruce Wobeser, Janet Hill and Beverly Kidney, WCVM Many scientists consider bovine papillomavirus (BPV) as the cause of sarcoids, benign skin tumours that are often diagnosed in horses. However, recent studies have shown that BPV DNA is also found in the normal skin and in non-sarcoid skin …
June 05th, 2009 Full story »
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New EHRF chair: Dr. David Wilson
Dr. David Wilson is the new chair of the Equine Health Research Fund’s management committee. Wilson, a 1980 graduate of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine, is a large animal surgical specialist and head of the college’s Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences. Since joining WCVM’s faculty in 1999, Wilson has led or supervised a number of EHRF-backed studies that …
October 05th, 2006 Full story »
