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California Budget Includes Money to Help Homeless Animals Subtitle UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program to Administer Grants and Outreach (not verified) July 28, 2021 Andy Cowitt California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed budget legislation today that includes $45 million in one-time support for a statewide Animal Shelter Assistance Program. The program will be administered […]

Molly Hall, assistant professor of biomedical sciences, was awarded the NIH ECHO Opportunities and Infrastructure Fund (OIF) Award with Dean Craig Newschaffer, College of Health and Human Development, titled “Integrative genome-exposome method to identify interactions between early life exposures and the genome”.

Dr. Michael Davis is a professor, the Oxley Endowed Chair in Equine Sports Medicine and the director of the Comparative Exercise Physiology Laboratory at Oklahoma State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. Funded by a Grayson-Jockey Club grant, his current research focuses on gaining a better understanding of a horse’s skeletal muscle function.

After carefully reviewing 1,661 applications, the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine is pleased to welcome the newest class of 100 future clinicians and scientists. The class of 2025 will be an important part of the CVM’s effort to restore more normal operations after a trying year of disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic. After orientation, […]

Success of UC Davis Equine PET Scan Research on Racehorses Translates to Clinical Breakthroughs for Sport and Pleasure Horses Rob Warren July 26, 2021 Rob Warren PET imaging of a horse’s left hock with the MILEPET scanner at the UC Davis veterinary hospital.. Radiographs alone of foot lameness show unremarkable results. But when fused with […]

Casper, Crimson, and Dr. Alice Blue-McLendon Every day is hump day at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences’ (CVMBS) Winnie Carter Wildlife Center (WCWC) now that camels Crimson and Casper have joined the community of exotic animals that call the center home. Three-year-old Crimson and 2-year-old Casper, both dromedary (one-humped) camels, […]

Monday, July 26, 2021 – 9:02am Morris photo provided.jpeg Cornell Ruffian Equine Specialists (CRES) will welcome Tate Morris, D.V.M. ’16, to its faculty July 26. “It is a pleasure to have a veterinarian as skilled as Dr. Morris join our team of clinicians,” said Dr. John Pigott, medical director and associate clinical professor. “I look […]

The Dutch virologist, based at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, caused a firestorm of controversy about a decade ago, when he and Yoshihiro Kawaoka at the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced that they had successfully mutated H5N1, a strain of bird flu, to pass through the air between ferrets, in two separate experiments. Ferrets are considered […]

“There is a real temptation to feel, because we’ve improved, the pandemic is over and everyone is safe,” UW-Madison Pathobiological Sciences professor Dr. Thomas Friedrich said in a statement. “This notion is not true. What we can’t afford is to backslide now.  We need to consider all the important things we are currently able to […]