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Article ItemVeterinary college professor advances pathology education in Nicaragua, Guatemala , article
Personally, and professionally, Francisco Carvallo is deeply invested in spreading veterinary knowledge across Latin America.
Date: Sep 22, 2023 -
Article ItemUndergraduates gain veterinary research experience through Multicultural Academic Opportunities Program , article
This summer, senior Kennedi Essex and junior Angel Collins, both animal and poultry sciences majors, worked with Priscila Serpa, research assistant professor of clinical pathology, on a variety of projects.
Date: Sep 15, 2023 -
Article ItemVeterinary professor receives grant for lupus research , article
Xin Luo, professor of immunology, received a $300,000 grant from the Department of Defense to establish a new, double humanized model for lupus.
Date: Sep 15, 2023 -
Article ItemVeterinary college lab leads exploration of DNA sequencing advances , article
The Virginia Tech Animal Laboratory Services within the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine has secured a $200,000 grant from the National Animal Health Laboratory Network to develop further expertise internally on nanopore-based genome sequencing for pathogen detection and disseminate that acquired knowledge to other laboratories.
Date: Sep 15, 2023 -
Article ItemUndergraduate students SURF into research this summer , article
Nine undergraduate students were paired with Fralin Life Sciences Institute-affiliated faculty mentors for the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program, a 10-week training program designed to give motivated undergraduates full-time research experience that mirrors real-world graduate work.
Date: Sep 13, 2023 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech is fertile ground for a new rural environmental health training program , article
A $500,000 institutional research training grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences will support Virginia Tech’s new Rural Environmental Health Ph.D. Fellowship Program by providing a two-year assistantship for six qualifying graduate students during the next five years.
Date: Sep 05, 2023 -
Article ItemMargie Lee honored with national poultry research award , article
Margie Lee ’82, DVM ‘86, associate dean for research and graduate studies at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, has been selected as the 2023 recipient of the Phibro Animal Health Excellence in Poultry Research Award.
Date: Aug 24, 2023 -
Article ItemJames Weger-Lucarelli receives grant to develop tools to aid researchers in study of RNA viruses , article
Weger-Lucarelli will use the $150,000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to develop easy-to-use tools and techniques that will allow more researchers to study RNA viruses and their mutations.
Date: Aug 16, 2023 -
Article ItemIn battle against pancreatic cancer, grant-funded H-FIRE study offers hope , article
The National Institutes of Health has awarded $2.6 million to a Virginia Tech team over five years for a study of High Frequency Irreversible Electroporation (H-FIRE) for tumor ablation and immune system activation in cases of pancreatic cancer.
Date: Aug 11, 2023 -
Article ItemAcademic-private partnership aims to reduce toxic effects of deadly digestive bacteria , article
Mohamed Seleem and Nectagen Inc. have received a nearly $275,000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study whether synthetic proteins developed by Nectagen can reduce the toxicity of the digestive bacteria commonly referred to as C. diff.
Date: Aug 08, 2023 -
Article ItemSummer research training program enters 16th year at veterinary college , article
The Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine has successfully competed in starting a third renewal of the T35 grant as the program enters its 16th year of giving veterinary students the chance to explore research in the summer between academic terms.
Date: Jul 25, 2023 -
Article ItemBonnie Smith honored with emerita status , article
A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1991, Smith’s scholarship focused on classical morphology, functional morphology, and teratology.
Date: Jun 27, 2023 -
Article ItemVeterinary college faculty recognized for contributions and impact , article
The college honored faculty members who have shown exceptional abilities in outreach, teaching, innovation, and advancing veterinary medicine.
Date: Jun 16, 2023 -
Article ItemSeed planted in neurotrauma research consortium hoping to harvest multimillion-dollar grants , article
Michelle Theus leads the new consortium for neurotrauma research, which has been awarded a $300,000 seed grant from the Fralin Life Sciences Institute to engage in groundbreaking scientific investigation of traumatic brain injury and its long-term effects.
Date: Jun 12, 2023 -
Article ItemVeterinary professor finds harmful bacterial pathogen in Virginia farm-raised rainbow trout , article
The discovery by Stephen A. Smith, professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathology and director of the Aquatic Medicine Program at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, was published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Aquatic Animal Health.
Date: Jun 07, 2023 -
Article ItemMargie Lee named associate dean for research and graduate studies at veterinary college , article
Lee, among the third class of graduates from the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine in 1986 and one of its earliest Black graduates, has been head of the college's Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology since 2018.
Date: Jun 02, 2023 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech graduate students awarded 2023 Commonwealth of Virginia Engineering and Science fellowships , article
Students in the Commonwealth of Virginia Engineering and Science fellowship spend the summer working in state agencies or with elected officials, practicing the policy research, writing, and communications skills they may use in their careers
Date: May 05, 2023 -
Article ItemChilean veterinary student exchange brings new perspectives, opportunities , article
In a three-month exchange, students from the veterinary college and the Austral University of Chile explore hands-on opportunities. The two Chilean students studying at the veterinary college this year are Priscila Soto and Maksimiano Rodríguez.
Date: Apr 26, 2023 -
Article ItemNadia Saklou receives research fellowship to employ data analysis for animal, human health , article
Saklou first heard the term “clinician-scientist” while attending veterinary school at Colorado State. Now, with experience as both a clinician and scientist at Virginia Tech, she has become a clinician-scientist herself with a fellowship in hand that completes the circle back to Colorado State.
Date: Apr 26, 2023 -
Article ItemAnnual graduate research symposium supports college's mission , article
The Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine hosts an annual research symposium both to support the college’s mission of educating a diverse population of professional and post-graduate students preparing for careers in veterinary medicine, biomedical sciences, and public health and to showcase the research of its graduate and training programs.
Date: Apr 21, 2023
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