Background

Dominique Votion received her doctorate in veterinary medicine from the University of Liège in 1993. She received the prize from the Annals of Veterinary Medicine for her end of year dissertation. She presented her doctoral thesis “Pulmonary scintigraphy in horses: methodology, definition of normal values and illustration of the potential of pulmonary scintigraphy in horses." in 1999. Until 2003, Dr Votion studied pulmonary scintigraphy and respiratory illnesses with a chronic inflammatory component for the FNRS and for the University of Liège.

Between 2003 and 2005, she received a grant from the Walloon Region to embark on research on atypical myopathy in horses. From 2005, she began work at the Mont-le-Soie European Equine Centre. She created and manages GAMA (the Groupe d’Alerte de la Myopathie Atypique), a disease monitoring network for atypical equine myopathy.

She was one of the main participants in developing innovative technology to investigate mitochondrial respiration as part of a collaboration between the Mont-le-Soie European Equine Centre and the Centre de l'Oxygène, Recherche et Développement (CORD) at the University of Liège.