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COVID-19

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    VA-MD Vet Med alumni (clockwise from top left) Jody Kull ’04; Jennifer McQuiston ’93, ’97, ’98; Lindsey McCrickard Shields ’11; Betsy Schroeder ’16, ’20; and Jim Trybus ’04.
    Uniquely prepared for a pandemic , article

    From public health veterinarians and pathologists to veterinary epidemiologists and disease surveillance experts, VA-MD Vet Med's One Health-trained alumni have their boots on the ground in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

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    Headshot of Mohamed Seleem.
    Center for One Health Research receives nearly $2 million from NIH to find new ways to combat gonorrhea , article

    Seleem, also the Tyler J. and Frances F. Young Endowed Chair in Bacteriology at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, and Dan Flaherty, associate professor of medicinal chemistry and molecular pharmacology at Purdue University, are the principal faculty for a $3 million grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health for ongoing studies on how to repurpose existing drugs to fight Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

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    Dynamic new graduate course examines pandemic , article

    Led by Kylene Kehn-Hall, professor of virology in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, a new special-studies course, COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), will use a multidisciplinary approach to educate graduate students about the novel coronavirus and the pandemic.

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    Public health graduate students Jackie Abramson and Teace Markwalter
    Public health students, faculty, and staff volunteer for local COVID-19 response efforts , article

    Medical Reserve Corps-trained public health students in the Master of Public Health (MPH) program in the Department of Population Health Sciences and in the dual Doctor of Veterinary Medicine/MPH program have volunteered, along with additional faculty and staff, at a New River Valley COVID-19 call center and at drive-thru testing sites.