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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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    Photo of Associate Professor, Julia Gohlke in front of VA-MD College of Veterinary Medicine.
    Julia M. Gohlke wins NASA grant to study health damages of extreme weather events , article

    Julia M. Gohlke, associate professor of environmental health in the department of population sciences at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, has been awarded a $1 million grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). She will work alongside co-PIs Ryan Calder, assistant professor of environmental health and policy at the college; Samarth Swarup of the University of Virginia; and Benjamin Zaitchik of Johns Hopkins University.

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    Eli Vlaisavljevich, associate professor , Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics,College of Engineering and Irving Coy Allen, associate professor of inflammatory diseases at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine look over a histotripsy piece of equipment.
    Virginia Tech team receives $2 million grant to use bubbles to destroy deadly tumors , article

    Pancreatic cancer has the highest mortality rate of the major cancers, and only 10 percent of patients live longer than five years after diagnosis. Treatment options can be limited, but an interdisciplinary team led by Irving Coy Allen, associate professor of inflammatory diseases at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, might change that. The team recently received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to explore the use of histotripsy as a therapeutic option for pancreatic cancer.

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    Headshot of James Romero-Masters.
    Romero-Masters to study tumor viruses at Center for One Health Research , article

    James Romero-Masters recently joined the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine as an assistant professor at the Center for One Health Research, a collaborative effort of the veterinary college and the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine.

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    Headshot of Mohamed Seleem.
    Academic-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.

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    Nammalwar Sriranganathan honored with emeritus status , article

    Nammalwar Sriranganathan, professor of bacteriology in the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech, has been conferred the title of professor emeritus by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.