Category: Member News

Sharada Gopal is a doctoral candidate in biomedical and biological sciences from Bangalore, India. She earned her bachelor’s degree at the RV College of Engineering in Bangalore and master’s at Cornell University and now studies oocyte activation from the context of metabolism and aging under the guidance of Siu Sylvia Lee at Cornell.

Suchodolski Dr. Jan Suchodolski, a professor at the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (VMBS), is the 2024 recipient of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Career Achievement in Canine Research Award. The award recognizes AVMA members who’ve made long-term contributions to research that advances dog health. Suchodolski, who also serves as […]

Electricity will soon be doing more in health care than just powering machines. With the research of Dr. Mike Sano and the bioelectricity lab at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, it could be the key ingredient in groundbreaking medical advancements from vaccines to cancer therapies.  “Everything in our body has an electric component,” Sano […]

University of Saskatchewan (USask) researchers based at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) received over $700,000 in research funding through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grants program.

Principle Investigator Erika Gruber Description NC State University College of Veterinary Medicine is looking for IMHA patients for a blood sample study. The purpose of this project is to investigate whether a key pathway that inhibits phagocytosis (cell ingestion) contributes to IMHA pathogenesis. CD47 (“don’t eat me” signal) is a marker of “self” that negatively regulates […]

I would be spending six weeks with the clinical veterinary team as they tended to the medical needs of animals at WCS (Bronx, Central Park, Queens, and Prospect Park Zoos and the New York Aquarium) in New York City. WCS cares for over 17,000 animals representing over 700 species—learning opportunities seemed endless! 

For Dr. Tasha Epp (DVM, PhD), the rewards of teaching all aspects of epidemiology and zoonotic disease to undergraduate veterinary students and graduate students at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) are twofold.

Dr. Ivan Rusyn, Dr. Arum Han, and Dr. Ramkumar Menon The University of Texas Medical Branch and Texas A&M University have received a $7.5 million grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) to establish a center dedicated to promoting women’s and pregnancy health research. The UTMB-Texas A&M partnership is one of four […]

Dr. Laura Nelson, the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine’s associate dean and director of academic affairs, has been named the new associate vice provost for academic personnel and policy, effective July 1. Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Warwick Arden made the announcement today. “Dr. Nelson has been a strong leader in the College of Veterinary […]