Current Position

Professor of Feline Medicine, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and The Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh: appointed 2006, termination ~August 2032

Education and Experience

Posts held within the last 10 years:
2012-2013 Director of Teaching Hospitals
2008-2012 Head of Companion Animal Sciences
2006-Present Professor of Feline Medicine,
2004-2012 Director on Final Year (BVM&S)

Danièlle Gunn-Moore has always been interested in Feline Medicine. She graduated from the R(D)SVS, University of Edinburgh with the Dick Vet Gold Prize for top student of 1991. After a year in small animal general practice, she completed her Feline-focused Residency at The Feline Centre, University of Bristol, funded by the Feline Advisory Bureau Scholar (now called International Cat Care), then a PhD study into Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) in 1997. She returned to Edinburgh to establish the Feline Clinic (1998) and became Professor of Feline Medicine in 2006.
– Internationally recognised expert in Feline Medicine, having lectured extensively on this topic (>600 hours CPD)
– On the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery, Veterinary Record, and Pathogens for many years
– An Honorary member of the International Society for Feline Medicine’s Feline Academy.
– 2009 awarded the BSAVA Woodrow Award for outstanding contribution in the field of small animal veterinary medicine
– 2011 awarded the International Society for Feline Medicine/Hill’s award for Outstanding Contributions to Feline Medicine
– 2012 the Royal Dick students voted her “The clinician I would most like to be”
– 2016 FECAVA awarded her “Increased Vocalisation in Elderly Cats” the most original paper in the European Journal of Companion Animal Practice that year
– 2017 became Fellow of the RCVS
– 2017 became Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.

Research

Major research interests: While investigating many aspects of Feline Medicine, DGM’s particular focus is on feline infectious disease (especially tuberculosis [maintaining the National Database of Mycobacterial Infections in Companion Animals] and feline infectious peritonitis [FIP; running FIP Studies FIPStudies@ed.ac.uk, and being part of the fipadvice@gmail.com team), and feline gerontology (especially dementia). She works in collaboration with many different national (Universities of Edinburgh, St. Andrews, Bristol, Southampton, Liverpool, RVC and DEFRA) and international (Universities of Dublin, Sydney, Brisbane, Colorado, Ohio, and California) research groups.

Research supervision: DGM is currently supervisor for two BBSRC 4-year PhD student and a one-year post-doc (working on mycobacterial infections, particularly tuberculosis in eyes; and comparative brain aging in cats and sheep), and two MSc students (two working on FIPStudies@ed.ac.uk). Since returning to the R(D)SVS ~25 years ago, she has been involved in the supervision of ~50 post-graduates (mainly in clinical residency positions), plus seven PhDs, ~15 MSc, and >100 clinical research projects.

DGM has brought in ~£3M in funds for research. She is an internationally recognised expert in her area, has lectured extensively lectured nationally and internationally.

Other

Relevant publications
DGM has published over a 200 peer-reviewed research papers, plus many reviews and book chapters. Her H-value is 45 with >7000 citations: https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/prof-danielle-gunn-moore; here are a selection of her publications:

1. S Taylor, S Boysen, T Buffington, S Chalhoub, P Defauw, MM Delgado, Gunn-Moore, DA, Korman K. 2025 iCatCare consensus guidelines on the diagnosis and management of lower urinary tract diseases in cats. JFMS 2025; 27 (2), 1098612X241309176
2. C O’Halloran, P Burr, DA Gunn-Moore, JC Hope. Comparative Performance of Ante-Mortem Diagnostic Assays for the Identification of Mycobacterium bovis-Infected Domestic Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris). Pathogens 2025; 14 (1), 28
3. McGeachan, RI, L Ewbank, M Watt, L Sordo, A Malbon, MKF Salamat, M Tzioras, M De Frias, J Tulloch, F Houston, DA Gunn-Moore, T Spires-Jones. Amyloid-beta pathology increases synaptic engulfment by glia in feline cognitive dysfunction syndrome: A naturally occurring model of Alzheimer’s disease bioRxiv, 2025.03. 06.641819
4. T Morrison, DA Gunn-Moore, JC Hope, C O’Halloran. Cytokine and Chemokine Responses of Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells from Dogs Infected with Mycobacterium bovis. Pathogens 2025; 14 (1), 17
5. O’Halloran C, Barker EN, Hope JC, Gunn-Moore DA. Canine tuberculosis: A review of 18 new and 565 previously reported confirmed cases. Vet J. 2024 Feb 25;304:106089.
6. Warr A, Attipa C, Gunn-Moore D, Tait-Burkard C. FCoV-23 causing FIP in a cat imported to the UK from Cyprus. Vet Rec. 2023 Nov 18;193(10):414-415.
7. Taylor SS, Coggins S, Barker EN, Gunn-Moore D, Jeevaratnam K, Norris JM, Hughes D, Stacey E, MacFarlane L, O’Brien C, Korman R, McLauchlan G, Salord Torres X, Taylor A, Bongers J, Espada Castro L, Foreman M, McMurrough J, Thomas B, Royaux E, Calvo Saiz I, Bertoldi G, Harlos C, Work M, Prior C, Sorrell S, Malik R, Tasker S. Retrospective study and outcome of 307 cats with feline infectious peritonitis treated with legally sourced veterinary compounded preparations of remdesivir and GS-441524 (2020-2022). J Feline Med Surg. 2023 Sep;25(9):1098612X231194460.
8. Attipa C, Gunn-Moore D, Mazeri S, Epaminondas D, Lyraki M, Hardas A, Loukaidou S, Gentil M. Concerning feline infectious peritonitis outbreak in Cyprus. Vet Rec. 2023;192(11):449-450.
9. O’Neill DG, Gunn-Moore D, Sorrell S, McAuslan H, Church DB, Pegram C, Brodbelt DC. Commonly diagnosed disorders in domestic cats in the UK and their associations with sex and age. J Feline Med Surg. 2023 Feb;25(2):1098612X231155016.
10. Sordo L, Gunn-Moore DA. Cognitive Dysfunction in Cats: Update on Neuropathological and Behavioural Changes Plus Clinical Management. Vet Rec. 2021 Jan;188(1):e3. VR most downloaded review 2023, n= 3578.
11. Cerna P, Archontakis PE, Cheuk HO, Gunn-Moore DA. Comparison of Doppler ultrasonic and oscillometric devices (with or without proprietary optimisations) for non-invasive blood pressure measurement in conscious cats. J Feline Med Surg. 2021 Feb;23(2):121-130.
12. O’Halloran C, Ioannidi O, Reed N, Murtagh K, Dettemering E, Van Poucke S, Gale J, Vickers J, Burr P, Gascoyne-Binzi D, Howe R, Dobromylskyj M, Mitchell J, Hope J, Gunn-Moore D. Tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium bovis in pet cats associated with feeding a commercial raw food diet. J Feline Med Surg. 2019 Aug;21(8):667-681. Extensive press coverage internationally.
13. Plitman L, Černá P, Farnworth MJ, Packer RMA, Gunn-Moore DA. Motivation of Owners to Purchase Pedigree Cats, with Specific Focus on the Acquisition of Brachycephalic Cats. Animals (Basel). 2019 Jun 27;9(7). pii: E394.
14. Albuquerque CS, Bauman BL, Rzeznitzeck J, Caney SM, Gunn-Moore DA. Priorities on treatment and monitoring of diabetic cats from the owners’ points of view. J Feline Med Surg. 2019 Jun 26:1098612X19858154; JFSM Resident paper 1st Prize 2020.
15. Stavinohova R, O’Halloran C, Newton JR, Oliver JAC, Scurrell E, Gunn-Moore DA. Feline Ocular Mycobacteriosis: Clinical Presentation, Histopathological Features, and Outcome. Vet Pathol. 2019 Sep;56(5):749-760.
16. O’Halloran, C., L. McCulloch, L. Rentoul, J. Alexander, J. C. Hope, D. A. Gunn-Moore. Cytokine and Chemokine Concentrations as Biomarkers of Feline Mycobacteriosis. Scientific Reports 2018, (8), Article number: 17314.
17. O’Halloran C, Hope JC, Dobromylskyj M, Burr P, McDonald K, Rhodes S, Roberts T, Dampney R, De la Rua-Domenech R, Robinson N, Gunn-Moore DA. An outbreak of tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium bovis infection in a pack of English Foxhounds (2016-2017). Transbound Emerg Dis. 2018;65(6):1872-1884.
18. Gunn-Moore D, Kaidanovich-Beilin O, Gallego Iradi MC, Gunn-Moore F, Lovestone S. Alzheimer’s disease in humans and other animals: A consequence of post-reproductive life span and longevity rather than aging. Alzheimers Dement. 2018 Feb;14(2):195-204. Impact Factor 9.5 Extensive press coverage the UK and internationally (especially the US).