Understanding: Advancing breakthroughs for animal and human health and wellbeing
We are at the forefront of veterinary care, education and research, advancing our understanding of ways to improve the lives of animals, people and the environment we live in.
As a society, our future depends on tackling animal, human and environmental health as one.
Whether it’s our food security, prevention or improved detection of diseases that can pass between animals and from animals to people, or the role animals play in therapy and our mental health, the wellbeing of animals and humans are inseparable.
If people and animals are to survive emerging health threats, we must invest in the next generation of veterinary scientists. There is no better place to do this than at Liverpool, with our proven experience of training vets of all backgrounds, providing effective clinical care of animals, and furthering research into animal health.
Based in a global University undertaking internationally excellent research, our students, veterinary clinicians and researchers have access to advanced scientific expertise and cutting-edge technology. However, it can be difficult to obtain funding to enable them to undertake research needed to answer important animal health issues.
With your support, you can help us to provide:
- Opportunity for more veterinary students to undertake small research projects, Summer research studentships and intercalated degrees, supporting veterinary students who otherwise would not be able to afford an extra year of study
- Increased breakthrough funding for projects that seek to improve animal health and wellbeing, including key ‘seed funding’ to enable our clinicians and researchers to more rapidly undertake key, initial work for important, future larger projects
- Travel funds - small sums to help our clinicians, researchers and students attend conferences or other meetings to present their work to other veterinary professionals / researchers, or develop important links with other research teams
- Funding for master's and PhD studentships, including projects where funding is not available through research or charity donations.
Examples of recent ways that we have used donations to support our research:
- Travel funding – conference presentation of research that has led to development of a mobile app to improve diagnosis and early management of dogs with mobility problems
- Project funding – investigating respiratory disease and ways to improve rehabilitation of hedgehogs for release back into the wild
- Seed funding – enabling one of our veterinary pathologists to develop their research investigating antibiotic resistant bacteria in sheep and cattle
- Summer studentship – supporting one of our veterinary students to work within a University of Liverpool research team based in Kenya investigating coronavirus (MERS) infection in camels, an infection that can be passed onto people causing severe and potentially fatal respiratory (lung) disease
- PhD funding - enabling one of our small animal oncologists (veterinary cancer specialist) to undertake a PhD research project within a leading human cancer research team
- Travel funding –funding to enable one of our veterinary pathologists attend a conference in Seattle, USA (American College of Veterinary Pathologists) to present their research on stranded dolphins, porpoises and whales.