Posted on June 07, 2022
Since the 1990s the Onderstepoort Animal Blood Bank (OABB) has been the saving grace of many dogs, cats, and even prized stud sheep, horses and cattle in need of life-saving blood transfusions.
Posted on May 23, 2022
The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has awarded Dr Gideon Brückner, an alumnus of the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Veterinary Science, the OIE Gold Medal for 2020.
Posted on May 20, 2022
Three UP Faculty of Veterinary Science alumni recently reunited in the US to relieve a six-ton elephant of “toothache” by performing a specialised tusk extraction.
Posted on May 05, 2022
UP’s Faculty of Veterinary Science has conferred degrees in veterinary nursing (BVetNurs) on the country’s first-ever cohort of graduates.
Posted on May 04, 2022
Professor Johan Schoeman leads the Pathobiology Research Theme in the faculty and is the former Head of the Department of Companion Animal Clinical Studies.
Posted on May 03, 2022
UP has awarded Emeritus Professor Jacobus Andries Wynand (Koos) Coetzer with an honorary doctorate for his contributions to the field of infectious and parasitic diseases of livestock and wildlife.
Posted on May 03, 2022
The Faculty of Veterinary Science is proud of its latest successful PhD graduates who, on Friday 29 April, were awarded their doctoral degrees at the autumn graduation ceremony of the University of Pretoria.
Posted on April 15, 2022
Before taking Nero to UP’s Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital, the vet told his owner, Daleen James, the operation was serious, and that it might be better to put him down. “My daughter and I said, ‘No way’,” says James.
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