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Tuesday 7 October 2025 (0 Comments - view/add) Saskia Dreyer: Ippen winner 2025 » Congratulations to Saskia Dreyer for winning the 2025 Rudolf Ippen Young Scientist Award honouring a young scientist...
Friday 18 October 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) Toronto conference feedback: Grant awardees » As a part of the student grants awarded yearly by the Student Section, four EAZWV student members were awarded grants...
Monday 30 September 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) David Ebmer: 2024 Ippen Award Winner » Congratulations to David Ebmer Martin for winning the 2024 Rudolf Ippen Young Scientist Award honouring a youn...
Sunday 1 September 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) 2024 Student Summer Workshop Testimonials » The Student Section organzized a very successful Summer Workshop in Gôrlitz Zoo summer last August. As a part of the stu...
Monday 3 July 2023 (0 Comments - view/add) Louise Martin: 2023 Ippen Award Winner » Congratulations to Louise Martin for winning the 2023 Rudolf Ippen Young Scientist award honouring a young scientist...
Thursday 9 June 2022 (0 Comments - view/add) Catarina Jota Baptista: 2022 Ippen Award Winner » Congratulations to Catarina Jota Baptista for winning the 2022 Rudolf Ippen Young Scientist award honouring a young s...
Thursday 9 December 2021 (0 Comments - view/add) Friederike Pohlin: 2021 Ippen Award Winner » Congratulations to Friederike Pohlin for winning the 2021 Rudolf Ippen Young Scientist award honouring a young scientist w...
Monday 21 June 2021 (1 Comment - view/add) Obituary Willem-jan Kitslaar » July 13th 1977 - June 16th 2021. On June 16th, after an uneven and debilitating battle against cancer, the zoo world...
Thursday 18 February 2021 (0 Comments - view/add) Obituary Dr. med. vet. Jürg Völlm » (17.03.1939-20.03.2020) When Jürg Völlm, my predecessor as zoo veterinarian, took me on a first round to the Zoo Bas...
Wednesday 29 July 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) Christoph Leineweber: 2020 Ippen Award Winner » Congratulations to Christoph Leineweber for winning the 2020 Rudolf Ippen Young Scientist award honouring a young scientis...
Friday 29 March 2019 (0 Comments - view/add) Rafaela Fiuza - EAZWV Working Group Coordinator » I joined EAZWV in 2011 to attend the conference in Lisbon and absolutely loved it! It felt so inspiring and encouraging th...
Friday 4 January 2019 (0 Comments - view/add) 2018 Ippen Award Winner: Kathryn Perrin » EAZWV has been a key component in the development of my career since I attended the Bussolengo meeting in 2012....
Wednesday 2 May 2018 (0 Comments - view/add) Interview with 2017 Ippen Award winner: Johanna Painer » Hi Johanna, can you start by telling us a bit about your career to date and the research work that contributed to you win...
Sunday 16 April 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) ECZM Wildlife Population Health Residency in Zagreb, Croatia » From the beginning of my study I was interested in wild animals, their health, conservation and other relations between wi...
Monday 6 March 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) ECZM/ACZM Residency (ZHM) in Toronto, Canada » I am in the second year of my residency in the joint programme between the Toronto Zoo and the Ontario Veterinary College/...
Sunday 5 February 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) Member Spotlight - Bieneke Bron: Wildlife Work and (Post) Graduate Studies in the United States » My nose hairs freeze as I bike along the Monona-bay shore. I am on my way to the University of Wisconsin – Madison campus...
Saturday 4 February 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) Member Spotlight - Sanatana Soilemetzidou: water holes, viruses and the Mongolian Desert » Among all the global challenges that we are facing in our century, it wouldn’t be wrong to say, that one of the most chall...
Monday 7 November 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) ECZM Wildlife Population Health Residency in London, UK » When I moved to London one year ago to become the first European College of Zoological Medicine (ECZM) Wildlife Population...
Thursday 20 October 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) ACZM Zoological Medicine Residency in Zürich, Switzerland » The ACZM Residency at the Clinic for Zoo Animals, Exotic Pets and Wildlife at the University of Zurich is the oldest of it...
Monday 10 October 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) ECZM ZHM Residency at the Zoological Society of London and Royal Veterinary College » Almost one year on from joining the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Royal Veterinary College (RVC) as their first E...
Friday 12 August 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) New arrival - 2nd ECZM/ACZM Resident (ZHM) in Copenhagen » I started the residency program at Copenhagen zoo just three months ago. The residency is supervised by Mads Bertelsen, an...
Wednesday 13 July 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) ECZM/ACZM Residency (ZHM) in Copenhagen » As I near the end of the residency program in Copenhagen, there has been (a little!) time to reflect on the past three yea...
Tuesday 5 July 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) ECZM Residency (ZHM) in Scotland, UK » The veterinary residency in Zoo Health Management at the Royal Zoological Society Scotland (RZSS) began in 2014 and was th...
Sunday 19 June 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) The Norwegian Wildlife Hospital » I am a 37-year-old, Israeli-born veterinarian who opened Norway’s first wildlife hospital in 2013. We rescue and treat a b...
Tuesday 7 June 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) First ECZM (Zoo Health Management) Residency in Germany » The Residency in Wuppertal is a great opportunity for me to get more involved with zoo and wild animal medicine and it als...
Wednesday 16 December 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) Dominik Fisher: 2015 Ippen Awardee » The 2015 Rudolf Ippen Young Scientist Award was issued at the International Conference on Diseases of Zoo and Wildlife Ani...
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