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October 2017 - Vol. 12, No. 10
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Keeping the Program Rolling

PetSmart Charities® grant supports shelter medicine and Mobile Surgery Unit

Mobile Surgery Unit

A special CVM program that gives veterinary students hands-on surgical experience will keep rolling thanks to $236,508 grant from PetSmart Charities, the leading funder of animal welfare in North America.

The most visible part of the program is the College of Veterinary Medicine’s 32-foot Mobile Surgery Unit used for performing on-site, pre-adoption spay/neuter procedures and provide medical care to enhance the health and adoptability of shelter animals.

 

 

Dr. Philine Wangemann helps uncover a root cause of childhood deafness in the inner ear

inner ear

Bigger is not always better, especially when it comes to structures in the inner ear.

Enlargement of the vestibular aqueduct, or EVA, has long been associated with hearing loss. A new study finally reveals the root cause of how this structure becomes enlarged, and could lead to new approaches to preventing and treating hearing loss associated with EVA and similar disorders. The discovery is the result of a collaborative research between Kansas State University and the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, part of the National Institutes of Health.

 

 

Dr. Wenjun Ma’s lab receives grants to study swine diseases

Dr. Wenjun Ma

Dr. Wenjun Ma is taking aim at swine diseases with the help of two major grants. He has received a National Institutes of Health R21 grant of $411,664 and a contract grant worth $303,865 from Merck Animal Health.

The NIH grant will be used to investigate the connections between respiratory swine disease and influenza B virus.

 

 

Video Feature

Dr. Waithaka Mwangi’s collaborative work reveals capability of cattle antibodies to neutralize HIV

Dr. Waithaka Mwangi talks about his internationally recognized, collaborative research on cattle antibodies that have shown a capability to neutralize the HIV virus and how that might one day have impact on human health.