PetSavers reports and interviews
PetSavers is the fundraising and grant awarding arm of BSAVA, aiming to drive excellence in veterinary practice to improve the health and welfare of small animals.
In this collection, read about the journeys and successes of those in veterinary practice who have undertaken research through PetSavers funding.
Updated 2025.
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Feline subclinical bacteriuria 
Christina Maunder at Bristol University received funding for a Master’s Degree by Research project as part of the BSAVA 60th anniversary celebrations. The Master’s student, Josh Kennils, investigated diagnostic approaches to feline subclinical bacteriuria and urinary tract infections, and the responsible use of antimicrobials.
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Pancreatic islet microenvironment – an unexplored therapeutic target 
Valeria Bergomi investigated the islet microenvironment in canine and feline diabetes mellitus as a BSAVA PetSaversfunded Master’s Degree by Research at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Kate Hughes, and with support from Lucy Davison. Read on to find out what their research revealed.
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Understanding the stability of thyroxine in feline blood samples 
Tim Williams and Nick Bexfield received BSAVA PetSavers funding for the student research project (SRP) entitled A study to determine the effects of time and storage conditions on the stability of total serum thyroxine in feline blood. Student Rory Scrace describes the project and its findings.
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PetSavers interview
Meet the researcher 
Alexander Davies undertook a BSAVA PetSavers student research project (SRP) entitled Feline lymphoma of the nervous system: a retrospective study (2003–2018) at the Royal Veterinary College under the supervision of Elsa Beltran.
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PetSavers supporting antimicrobial resistance research 
Gavin Paterson is currently Senior Lecturer in Molecular and Applied Microbiology at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh. He was awarded PetSaversfunding to supervise a Master’s Degree by Research project entitled Exploiting the healthy microflora to develop new treatments for Staphylococcus pseudintermedius infection in canine atopic dermatitis.
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Meet the researcher 
Tim Williams has been awarded several PetSavers grants, including clinical research projects and student projects. His most recent is for an undergraduate project entitled ‘Can we use bacterial outer membrane vesicles as a novel antibacterial therapy?’
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Corneal cytology and canine ulcerative keratitis 
Negar Hamzianpour and collaborators Christine Heinrich, Rachael Grundon and Rose Linn-Pearl, from the Eye Veterinary Clinic, Leominster, Herefordshire, have been awarded PetSavers’ funding to explore whether the use of corneal cytology is a reliable tool for identifying the type of bacteria involved in cases of canine ulcerative keratitis, using culture as the ‘gold standard’.
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Meet the researcher 
Aarti Kathrani is currently working on the PetSavers-funded study ‘Defining the duodenal mycobiota in dogs with chronic enteropathy’. She has also just been awarded a new PetSavers clinical research project grant for a study entitled ‘The characterization and clinical significance of intestinal fibrosis in cats with chronic inflammatory enteropathy’.
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The GENDEER study GENetic associations with dilated cardiomyopathy in DEERhounds 
Emily Dutton from Cheshire Cardiology, Professor Jo Dukes-McEwan from the University of Liverpool and Professor Ottmar Distl from the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Institute for Animal Breeding and Genetics, have been awarded PetSavers funding to investigate genetic associations with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) in Deerhounds.
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