As patron, the Princess Royal attended a recent ceremony on the University of Edinburgh Easter Bush campus where she marked the start of work to build the new Royal 
(Dick) School of Veterinary Studies.
The £42 million building for the new School will form part of a wider £100 million development on the Easter Bush site. This will include a cancer centre for animals, equipped with scanners and radiotherapy equipment, and a new research building for The Roslin Institute. The new Vet School building will aid clinical teaching, with its location alongside the Hospital for Small Animals.
A memorandum of understanding was also signed between The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State University.
The collaboration between the two veterinary institutions will foster exchanges for students, expanding their clinical research knowledge. It will also encourage partnerships on research projects, such as looking at emerging infectious diseases that can cross the species barrier from animals to humans.
It is due to be completed in 2010. The new £3 million cancer centre will be built by next year and combine radiotherapy with advanced imaging technologies. It will cater for animals of different sizes and be one of the top facilities of its kind in the world.
Read the full press release here.
For further information on academic programmes, please visit the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Medicine website.
Content added on October 14, 2008.
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