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Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

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  • Veterinary Research
    • One Health
      • Infection & Immunity
        • Virology
          • Virus Structure, Receptors and Entry Mechanisms
          • Glycovirology
          • Virus Replication
          • Vaccines and Antiviral Drugs
          • Innate Antiviral Responses
          • Clinical Virology
        • Clinical Infectiology
          • Antimicrobial Resistance
          • Parasitology
          • International Activities
          • Campylobacter fetus
        • Immunology
          • Immunity to Microbes within the Cell
          • Chronic Inflammatory Diseases
          • Veterinary Immunology
          • Porcine Immunology
          • Wildlife Immunology
        • Infection Biology
          • Bacterial Virulence and Innate Immunity
          • Bacterial Adaptation Mechanisms
          • Mucosal Host-Microbe Interactions
        • Molecular Host Defence
          • Structure and Function of Host Defence Molecules
          • Avian Host Defence
          • Pulmonary Host Defence and Cystic Fibrosis
        • Cell Biology
          • The Role of Subcellular Trafficking in Immune Regulation
          • Extracellular Vesicles in Intercellular Communication
          • Decoding Genetic Messages
          • Development of EV-technology
        • Pathobiology
        • Population Dynamics of Infections
      • Risk Assessment Sciences
        • Exposure Science and the Exposome
        • Healthy Urban Living
        • Healthy Rural Living
        • Occupational Health
        • Toxicological mechanisms and effects
        • Alternative and in vitro models in toxicology
        • Child Health
        • Antimicrobial Resistance
        • COVID-19
    • One Medicine
      • UTOMIC
      • Locomotion
        • Equine Sciences
        • Clinical Sciences of Companion Animals
        • Clinical Research Centres
          • Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine
          • UU Animal Cancer Centre
          • Dutch Wildlife Health Centre
          • Expertise Centre Genetics of Companion Animals
      • Soft Tissue Engineering & Medicine
        • Bone and Cartilage Regeneration
          • MIRACLE-project: mid-infrared arthroscopy probe
        • Liver Regeneration
        • Lipids and Regeneration
      • Oncology
        • Mechanism of Tumor Suppression
        • Comparative and Translational Oncology
    • Veterinary Biomedicine
      • Advanced Reproductive Techniques
        • Fertilisation
        • Aneuploidy
        • Embryo-maternal communication
        • Metabolism and fertility
        • Expertise Centres
      • Animal Welfare & Emerging Clinical Topics
        • Behavioural Neuroscience
        • Anxiety and Adaptation
        • Ontogeny of Emotion/Cognition
        • Farm Animal Health
        • Pathobiology
      • Genetics
      • Oncology
    • Research centres & facilities
      • 3Rs-Centre ULS
      • Advanced sperm quality analysis
      • Biomolecular Interaction Facility
      • CCI – Centre for Cell Imaging
      • Centre for Sustainable Animal Stewardship
      • Centre of Excellence for Plastination and Virtual Reality
        • Catalogue
      • Dutch Molecular Pathology Centre
      • Dutch Wildlife Health Centre
      • Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine
      • Expertise Centre Genetics of Companion Animals
      • Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting
      • Genome Editing Centre
      • Landelijk Expertisecentrum Dierenmishandeling (in Dutch)
      • Lipidomics Centre
      • Reproductive organs-on-a-chip
      • Single Cell Analysis Centre
      • UU Animal Cancer Centre
      • Utrecht Biofabrication Facility
      • Veterinary Microbiology Diagnostic Centre
      • WHO Collaborating Centre for Campylobacter
    • Partnerships
      • Netherlands Centre for One Health (NCOH)
        • Fighting COVID-19 in animals and humans
          • SARS-CoV-2 in cats and dogs in Dutch households
          • SARS-CoV-2 in different animal populations
          • Pathogenesis and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in cats
          • Genetic research of SARS-CoV-2 in humans and animals
          • Modelling of SARS-CoV-2 transmission between cats and humans
          • Communication and dissemination
    • PhD Track
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  • Patient care
  • About the Faculty
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    • Department Biomolecular Health Sciences
      • Cell Biology, Metabolism & Cancer
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      • Infectious Diseases and Immunology
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      • Pathology
        • Research
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    • Department Clinical Sciences
      • Equine Sciences
        • Research
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    • Department Population Health Sciences
      • Animals in Science and Society
        • Education
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      • Farm Animal Health
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      • IRAS
        • Education
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    • Central Laboratory Animal Research Facility
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UU home
  • 200 years of Veterinary Medicine! On December 10, 2021, the Dutch veterinary education program will celebrate its exact 200th anniversary! We will celebrate this with festive activities for all our employees, students, alumni and other relations.
  • Professionals education The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine offers high-quality post-academic courses for professional in the field of veterinary medicine. Have a look at our educational offering.
  • Studying at the faculty of Veterinary Medicine What is it like to come to the Netherlands and to study at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine? We interviewed four veterinary medicine students.
  • Vetscience Vetscience magazine is your source for news from the Utrecht University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Vetscience is published three times a year in Dutch and once a year in English.
  • News

    • This summer, children research air quality with Utrecht scientists

      In the media
      19 May 2022
      Curious children who like to investigate can go and do research in Utrecht this summer, together with scientists from Utrecht University. During Summerschool Junior they will work on the theme 'air quality', to which Roel Vermeulen and his team will contribute.
    • University of Zurich awards honorary doctorate to Debbie Jaarsma

      News
      29 April 2022
      Debbie Jaarsma, Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Utrecht University, receives an honorary doctorate from the Vetsuisse Faculty of the University of Zurich.
    • Cortisol in shelter dog hair shows signs of stress

      News
      21 April 2022
      Utrecht researchers investigated if the amount of the hormone cortisol in hair indicates the levels of stress that dogs experience before, during and after their stay in the shelter.
    RSS Read more
  • Events

    • 2 Jun

      PhD Defence: Bayesian Methods in Veterinary Clinical Epidemiology

      2 June 2022 from 10:15 to 11:15
      PhD Defence of H. Ni (faculty Veterinary Medicine)
    • 13 Jun

      Science for Life Café

      13 June 2022 from 16:00 to 17:00
      Scientists from the Science for Life basic research community present short lectures to explain their work and share recent insights
    • 14 Jun

      PhD Defence: Estimating freedom from infection

      14 June 2022 from 12:15 to 13:15
      PhD Defence of A.M. van Roon (faculty Veterinary Medicine)
    RSS Read more
  • Diagnostic laboratories

    • UVDL
    • VMDC
    • VPDC
    • DMPC (Dutch Molecular Pathology Centre
    • Diagnostic Imaging
  • Research facilities

    • Centre for Cell Imaging
    • Mass Spectrometry Facility
  • Educational and public facilities

    • Anatomical collection
    • Utrecht Centre for Tick-bound diseases
    • Veterinary Museum
  • Contact

    • Find a staff member
    • Press communication
    • Tours of the faculty
  • Onderzoekers meten met meetpalen de luchtkwaliteit in de omgeving van veehouderijen

    Welcome to Veterinary Medicine!

    Animal, human and environmental health are inextricably linked. That's why we conduct leading-edge research, train veterinarians of the future, and provide clinical care at our university animal hospital.
    Who are we?
  • One Medicine in Motion

    With 'One Medicine in Motion', we want to enable even more innovative research and new treatment methods for musculoskeletal disorders, so that more animals and people can move pain-free.
    Read more
  • Black and white photo from the sixties. Two Veterinarians carrying a dog outside on a strecher.

    Veterinary medicine in the 1960's

    Famous Dutch photographer Cas Oorthuys explored the subject of veterinary medicine during the early nineteen sixties. This resulted in a beautiful visual record of the veterinary profession of the day.
    Photo essay Cas Oorthuys
  • stranding research, three veterinary medicine employees put a porpoise on the dissection table

    Why do whales and dolphins become stranded?

    Every year hundreds of dead porpoises are washed ashore on the Dutch coastline. As to what could be causing these deaths; that is what we are investigating at the Department of Pathology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.
    Strandings Investigation

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