Research

The School of Veterinary Medicine forms part of the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences. Our mission is to integrate research activities across the broad field of research encompassing infectious and genetic diseases of animals and man, to develop novel animal models of human disease and to foster translational research in veterinary medicine.

The School of Veterinary Medicine maintains a multidisciplinary research culture that is responsive to advances in technology and changing priorities in the international arena.

Our activities are focused in three academic divisions:

• Small Animal Clinical Sciences
• Large Animal Clinical Sciences and Public Health:
  Current research activities: Pain and Welfare research group
• Veterinary Biosciences

Research Institutes

Research Institutes in the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences are based on broad, multi-disciplinary themes, many of which involve collaborations with other parts of the University or with other universities and research institutes in the UK and throughout the world.

Our Research Institutes are:

• Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine
• Institute of Cancer Sciences
• Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences
• Institute of Health and Wellbeing
• Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation
• Institute of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology
• Institute for Psychology & Neurosciences
  (Cross-College Institute with the College of Science and Engineering)

Centres

The School of Veterinary Medicine has associations with a number of the research centres and networks in the University. 

Principal amongst these are:

• Boyd Orr Centre for Population Health
• Medical Research Council - University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
• Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology