McGarvie Smith Institute

Research projects

Flock of sheep being mustered by a farmer on a motorbike
Image courtesy NSW Department of Primary Industries

The McGarvie Smith Institute provides grant funding for projects involving veterinary and related sciences and whose outcomes provide a demonstrable benefit to the production livestock industries of New South Wales

Recently completed projects

Previously funded projects

  • McGarvie Smith Roy Watts Memorial Honours scholarship
  • Use of food-grade yeast to formulate better vaccines for livestock that will mitigate the need for a cold chain
  • Study on the prevalence and impact of chronic benign footrot in New South Wales
  • Research on the prevalence of the reproductive parasite Tritrichomonas foetus in Northern Australian cattle
  • Ovine Brucellosis and Cyanobacterial involvement in sudden death strains of Dichelobacter nodosus isolated from sheep flocks in NSW
  • Revitalising and expanding Australia’s national veterinary pathology digital reference
  • Abortions in ruminants: an epidemiological and pathological study of infectious agents in NSW