Prof. Anja KIPAR

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BSc BVMS(Hons) MVS FANZCVS(Radiology)

Adjunct Professor

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Biography Professor Anja Kipar is an EBVS European Specialist in Veterinary Pathology (DiplECVP) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath). She graduated from the University of Giessen, Germany, where she also obtained her Dr. med. vet. degree and undertook her habilitation on the pathogenesis of Feline Infectious Peritonitis.

Anja has been a Professor of Veterinary Pathology at the University of Liverpool, UK and the University of Helsinki, Finland where she still holds honorary positions. She is now Full Professor and Director of the Institute of Veterinary Pathology at the Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Anja has extensive experience in diagnostic veterinary pathology, with a focus on infectious diseases. Her research interests are broad and range from interdisciplinary basic research in particular on animal models of zoonotic infectious diseases to veterinary diseases of specific relevance. Anja has a particular interest in the immunopathogenesis of feline infectious diseases, in particular FIP, and has published more than 50 papers in this field.

She also has a focus on cardiac pathology and is a driving force of the Veterinary Cardiac Pathophysiology Consortium, an interdisciplinary research group that investigates the pathogenesis of feline and canine cardiomyopathies.

Anja is also one of the leaders of The BIBD Group, an interdisciplinary group that dedicates its work to research on viral diseases of snakes, with particular focus on Boid Inclusion Body Disease (BIBD). The group has published extensively on the aetiology and pathogenesis of BIBD and the python nidovirus infections and has discovered new snake arenaviruses and a kolmiovirus (formerly called deltavirus) in snakes.