As part of a $3.25 million Department of Defense grant through the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, researchers at the veterinary college, the University of Montreal, and SRI International are using artificial intelligence to study hemorrhagic fever viruses with the ultimate goal of identifying targets for therapeutics.
The new faculty includes specialists in areas such as virology, student success, veterinary social work, small animal surgery, emergency medicine, anatomic pathology, large animal surgery, and radiology.
Meng, University Distinguished Professor of Molecular Virology in the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, will focus on understanding how the hepatitis E virus affects the cells in the neurovascular unit, leading to neurological injury.