UP scientists scoop first and second prizes in Innovation Hub competition’s Biosciences category

Posted on January 14, 2021

UP’s Prof Tahir Pillay and Prof Celia Abolnik and their teams have won first and second prize, respectively, in the Biosciences category of the GAP Innovation Competition run by the Innovation Hub.

UP PhD student in veterinary science receives 2020 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science young talent award

Posted on December 04, 2020

LaToya Seoke, a PhD student in the Faculty of Veterinary Science’s Department of Production Animal Studies, was recently selected as one of only 20 women researchers to receive the Sub-Saharan Africa Young Talent Award for academic excellence.

‘I never wanted to be a princess – becoming a veterinarian was my dream,’ says UP lecturer and wildlife specialist Dr Katja Koeppel

Posted on August 21, 2020

From rescuing flamingos and delivering wild kittens by Caesarean to catching jackals to study and treating lions for tumours, UP lecturer and wildlife specialist Dr Katja Koeppel is the vet that everyone has on speed dial.

No “Mission Impossible” after airlifting a gorilla by helicopter to the faculty for a CT scan

Posted on June 09, 2020

​The special patient aboard the helicopter was Makokou, a 34-year-old male Western lowland gorilla from the Johannesburg Zoo who was airlifted to Onderstepoort for a CT scan of his nasal passages.

Faculty’s IVF lab advancing towards artificial rhino conservation technologies with San Diego Zoo Global

Posted on May 14, 2020

An important week-long international visit in February to the Faculty’s In Vitro Fertility (IVF) Laboratory has paved the way for more extensive collaboration with San Diego Zoo Global as part of the International Rhino Reproduction Collaborative (IRRC). An IRRC-MOU, primarily drafted by...

New UP Veterinary Science graduate had no pets and was terrified of animals for years

Posted on April 30, 2020

Dr Zandile Mbonxa was terrified of animals as a child and never had pets – but despite this she recently qualified as a veterinarian when she was awarded a degree from the University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Veterinary Science.

Prof Gareth Bath receives World Veterinary Association’s 2020 Global Animal Welfare Award

Posted on April 22, 2020

Prof Gareth Bath, emeritus professor of the Faculty of Veterinary Science and chairperson of the Livestock Welfare Coordinating Committee (LWCC) was recently awarded the 2020 Global Animal Welfare Award by the World Veterinary Association (WVA). This is a major achievement and the University and...

‘UP vets are the best vets!’ – My name is Andrew the Scottie, and this is my story

Posted on April 01, 2020

My name is Andrew and I am, so I am told, a Scottish Terrier. Andrew is apparently a difficult name for humans to pronounce, so everybody calls me “Andy”. Because Scotties are stubborn, independent and proud with a bad temper I do not like it, but I cannot convince them through...