Richard Piercy

Richard qualified from Cambridge University in 1994. After two years in private equine practice he moved to the USA and completed a residency in equine internal medicine at The Ohio State University and a Master of Science degree in muscle physiology and disease. He returned to the UK to complete his PhD in molecular and cellular biology of neuromuscular diseases. Richard is Professor of Comparative Neuromuscular Disease at the Royal Veterinary College and heads the Comparative Neuromuscular Diseases Laboratory which provides a service for the histopathological assessment of muscle biopsy samples from veterinary clinical cases. Richard’s research interests include primary neuromuscular disorders, including exertional rhabdomyolysis, polysaccharide storage myopathy, and recurrent laryngeal neuropathy in horses, as well as the use of gait analysis for objective assessment of equine ataxia, and research into control of muscle protein synthesis in horses.