Victoria Colgate MA, VetMB, MSc, MRCVS, qualified from the University of Cambridge in 2014. After graduating, she completed a Clinical Training Scholarship at the Cambridge Equine Hospital before working in a busy polo practice in Ascot.
Victoria joined Rossdales Equine Hospital in June 2017 as the Margaret Giffen Resident in Clinical Research, where in addition to carrying out research projects she attained an MSc in veterinary epidemiology and public health.
After time away in a specialist role as a veterinary epidemiologist at Equine Infectious Disease Surveillance (EIDS), she returned to Rossdales in July 2023 as a research associate, funded by the Margaret Giffen Charitable Trust. She has a strong interest sport horse care and welfare.
While surgical excision of tumours in equids is an ideal treatment in many cases, in others intratumoural injection of a chemotherapeutic agent – and short and intense electrical pulses applied to the local tissues – may be a better option…
Victoria Colgate MA, VetMB, MSc, MRCVS and Richard Newton BVSc, MSc, PhD, FRCVS explore the measures taken to stop the spread of this venereal disease.
Fleur Whitlock BVetMed, MSc, MRCVS, Victoria Colgate MA, VetMB, MSc, MRCVS, and Richard Newton BVSc, MSc, PhD, FRCVS, of the Equine Infectious Disease Surveillance team, reveal the current situation here with the endemic disease.
Victoria Colgate and Richard Payne discuss the use of platelet-rich plasma and stem cell therapy in the management of this issue, as well as the need for research into more effective treatments.
Victoria Colgate MA, VetMB, MSc, MRCVS, qualified from the University of Cambridge in 2014. After graduating, she completed a Clinical Training Scholarship at the Cambridge Equine Hospital before working in a busy polo practice in Ascot.