Research News

Ontario Veterinary College PhD student Brenna Stevens' research is focused on gene therapy and in particular on cystic fibrosis.

Ontario Veterinary College PhD student Janan Shoja Doost’s research aims to further establish the link between cardiovascular health and disease and circadian rhythms, rhythms that follow the 24-hour day-night cycle.

Dr. David Kelton, Ontario Veterinary College’s (OVC) Department of Population Medicine, and Dr. Jim Petrik, OVC Department of Biomedical Sciences, have been inducted as Fellows with the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

Dr. Melissa Perreault, in the Ontario Veterinary College's Department of Biomedical Sciences, is one of two University of Guelph professors named to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.

Healthier dairy herds may result from paying more attention to farmers’ calf care practices, researchers at the University of Guelph’s Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) have found. In this first-time study, Dr. Devon Wilson, veterinarian and PhD student, and Dr. David Renaud, professor in OVC’s Department of Population Medicine, used focus groups of dairy farmers to explore male and female calf care practices and suggest improvements.