Dr. David Moore has been honored by the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine as its 2021 Distinguished Alumni.
Moore, who graduated from the vet school in 1980, was veterinarian for the rats and squirrel monkeys that flew in the Spacelab 3 mission. As a project manager and clinical veterinarian at the NASA Ames Research Center, he supervised animal care, ensuring regulatory compliance during the mission.
He taught for 35 years at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He developed a lab animal residency program at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine and established the university’s research compliance office. In addition, he established a lab and companion animal curriculum in the Virginia Tech Animal Science Department. In 2019, he was awarded emeritus status by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.