Susanne Guthruf
DVMS Start Date: 01/01/2024
Supervisor: Hanne Jahns
Thesis Title: Monitoring health of seals on the Irish coast
Morphological Pathology (ECVP)
Morphological Pathology (ECVP)
Viktoria Spanou
Resident in Veterinary Anatomical Pathology
Start Date: 01/01/2024
Finish Date: 31/12/2027
Supervisor: Pamela Kelly
Thesis Title: Immunohistochemical and transcriptomic analysis of canine demodicosis; insights into neuroimmunological pathways.
David Sheehan
IDEXX-UCD Resident in Veterinary Pathology
Start Date: 01/02/2024
Finish Date: 01/02/2028
Supervisor: Pamela Kelly
Thesis Title: Exploring the prevalence of enteritis in dogs, focusing on breeds, sex, age and diet history in relation to histological severity of inflammation and predominant cell type and to determine if histological standards accurately reflect outcomes.
Herd Health (ECBHM)
Herd Health (ECBHM)
Raffaela Marian
Start Date: 11/09/2023
Supervisor: Eoin Ryan
Thesis Title: Optimising efficiency in Irish dairy herds through the identification of target within- herd yield and genetic profiles for the prediction of optimal production performance outcomes
Salem Djebala
Start Date: 01/10/2024
Supervisor: Luke O'Grady
Thesis Title: Risk factors associated with abomasal disorders in dairy calves.
Large Animal Clinical Reproduction (ECAR)
Large Animal Clinical Reproduction (ECAR)
Aurore Le Breton
Start Date: 04/09/2023
Supervisor: Niamh Lewis/Julie Storme
Thesis Title: Factors affecting OPU/ICSI success in the mare.
Claudia Gilders
Start Date: 01/09/2022
Supervisor: Vivienne Duggan
Thesis Title: Equine Glandular Gastric Disease treatment efficacy
Large Animal Surgery (ECVS)
Large Animal Surgery (ECVS)
Andrea del Rincon
Start Date: 01/11/2022
Supervisor: John Mark O'Leary
Thesis Title: Research investigation into the effects of various novel therapeutics on inflammatory pathways in equine joint inflammation models.
Small Animal Surgery (ECVS)
Small Animal Surgery (ECVS)
Ignacio Otero Balda
Start Date: 01/02/2023
Supervisor: Ronan Mullins
Thesis Title: An investigation into effect of prophylactic levetiracetam against development of postattenuation neurologic signs in cats with portosystemic shunts and prognostic factors for short-term survival.
Joseph O'Sullivan
Start Date: 01/05/2023
Supervisor: Marie Pauline Maurin
Thesis Title: Investigations of surgical management in cats with common calcaneal tendon injury.
Cristina Ortega
Start Date: 01/01/2024
Supervisor: Ronan Mullins
Thesis Title: An investigation into the feasibility and accuracy of 3D-printed guides for partial corpectomy and comparison of linked versus unlinked guides for spinal stabilisation in dogs.
Anaesthesia and Analgesia (ECVAA)
Anaesthesia and Analgesia (ECVAA)
Pau Arboleas
Start Date: 01/06/2025
Supervisor: Vilhelmiina Huuskonen
Thesis Title: Comparative effects of methadone and pethidine premedication on ease of endoscopic duodenal intubation in anaesthetised dogs; and retrospective and prospective evaluation of pethidine-associated allergic reactions in clinical patients.
Patricia Romero Marco
Start Date: 01/01/2022
Supervisor: Vilhelmiina Huuskonen
Thesis Title: Aspects of wild fox capture and release in the Dublin area.
Chiara Cipollini
Start Date: 01/05/2023
Supervisor: Joanna Potter
Thesis Title: Analgesia in small animals.
Diagnostic Imaging (ECVDI)
Diagnostic Imaging (ECVDI)
Giulia Dalla Serra
Start Date: 01/07/2022
Supervisor: Cliona Skelly
Thesis Title: An Investigation of Different Computed Tomography (CT) Scanning Protocols on Reducing Metal Implant Artefacts in Veterinary Imaging and their Effect on Image Interpretation in Veterinary Patients.
Wiktoria Jamont
Start Date: 19/06/2023
Supervisor: Antonella Puggioni
Thesis Title: Effects of sedation on Portal Vein velocities assessed with Triplex-Doppler ultrasonography in small breed dogs.
Charles Neill
Start Date: 01/09/2024
Supervisor: Seamus Hoey
Thesis Title: Comparative Evaluation of Emerging Diagnostic Technologies: Imaging of Parathyroid Pathologies in Dogs and AI-Based Cardiac Assessment in Cats.
Small Animal Internal Medicine (ECVIM-Ca)
Small Animal Internal Medicine (ECVIM-Ca)
Rachel McDonnell
Start Date: 01/01/2024
Supervisor: Benoit Cuq
Thesis Title: Use of transcriptomics and proteomics in canine haematological immune-mediated disease (IMHA and ITP).
Katie Broadbridge
Start Date: 01/09/2022
Supervisor: Emma O'Neill
Thesis Title: Characterisation of Canine Cholangitis and Cholecystitis.
Julia McCarthy
Start Date: 01/09/2023
Supervisor: Monica Augusto
Thesis Title: Biomarker analysis in canine insulinoma: diagnostic and prognostic implications.
Magdalena Glebocka
Start Date: 02/09/2024
Supervisor: Carles Blasi
Thesis Title: Unraveling the Role of Complement Pathways in Canine and Feline Immune-Mediated Blood Disorders
Robyn Belch
Start Date: 01/09/2025
Supervisor: Kevin Murtagh
Thesis Title: ROTEM analysis and combination therapy of faecal microbiome transplant (FMT) and novel insect based dietary in dogs with chronic enteropathy.