Name Julia Beatty | ||
Julia Beatty is a British-Australian veterinary researcher specialising in feline medicine clinical research and educating students of Veterinary Science.
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Education
Born in London, Beatty attended the Royal Veterinary College, University of London and graduated with a Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine in 1989. Captivated by cats from an early age, she obtained a PhD on the immune response to feline immunodeficiency virus from Oswald Jarrett’s laboratory at The University of Glasgow in 1994. Beatty is a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons recognised clinical specialist in Feline Medicine. She has worked in both primary and referral veterinary hospitals and is currently Associate Professor of Small Animal Medicine in the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Sydney.
Career achievements
Beatty is best known for her research on viral diseases of cats, particularly viral causes of cancer. She initiated a collaboration with Sue VandeWoude and Ryan Troyer at Colorado State University that led to the discovery, jointly, of the first gammahepresvirus of domestic cats, Felis catus gammaherpesvirus 1. Her research into this virus and other infectious diseases of small animals continues with her Clinical Infectious Disease Research Group at the University of Sydney.
Beatty was awarded the Australian Small Animal Veterinary Association’s Award for Scientific Excellence in 2014 and a University of Sydney Thompson Fellowship in 2012. Her research has been funded by the Wellcome Trust, UK and the Morris Animal Foundation, USA. She has authored over 80 scientific publications and book chapters and has had over 30 abstract presentations at international conferences. She is also a Fellow and past-President of the Feline Chapter of the Australia and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists, and is Associate Editor for Veterinary Medicine and Science (Wiley).
Beatty is currently a Feline Internal Medicine Specialist at the University Veterinary Teaching Hospital Sydney, where she performs clinical research into diseases of small animals. In her role as Associate Professor, she is a lecturer in undergraduate small animal medicine, supervisor of final year veterinary student clinical rotations and post-graduate Masters and PhD students.