News Stories
Texas A&M, Johns Hopkins receive $5.3 million NIH grant to study how lead exposure affects humans
When researchers try to uncover the cause of disease, they commonly start with two questions: Did a quirk in the patient’s genes open the door to illness, or did exposure to environmental factors play havoc with the patient’s health? Very often, both genes and the environment are at least partly to blame, and to provide […]
Texas A&M Researchers Awarded Grant to Establish “Tissue Chip” Center
Testing drug safety and efficacy is challenging, expensive, and time consuming. Recent advancements have given way to what is known as “tissue chips.” These tiny bioengineered systems mimic the larger, complex organs and tissues of the human body. The chips may improve our ability to ensure that a drug is safe before clinical trials begin […]
Celebrating Dr. Charles W. “Doc” Graham, ’53
Dr. Charles W. Graham ’53 was selected as one of 12 recipients of the 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award, the highest honor bestowed upon a former student of Texas A&M University. Since the inception of the award in 1962, only 261 of Texas A&M’s 440,000 former students have been recognized with the Distinguished Alumnus Award. Awarded […]
A Special Love for Horses: Howard Fisher
Howard Fisher began his career in 1986 as a custodian on the main campus of Texas A&M University, but his love of horses motivated him to apply for an animal caretaker position in the Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences (VLCS) at the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM). “I really wanted to […]
Texas A&M Professor a Lead Investigator in the Largest Prospective Veterinary Cardiology Study Carried Out to Date
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Mitral valve disease (MVD) accounts for approximately 75 percent of all canine heart disease. However, a recent global clinical trial led by a Texas A&M University veterinarian was published in the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Sept 2016) and shows that early treatment can slow progression of the disease, prolonging overall […]
Texas A&M Students Honored at American Association of Bovine Practitioner Conference
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Cade Luckett, a third-year veterinary student at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM), was recently honored with the Amstutz Scholarship from the American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP). This is just one of several recognitions of CVM students at the AABP conference in Charlotte, North Carolina […]
A Ballad of Brain Cells: Dr. Evelyn Tiffany-Castiglioni
Dr. Evelyn Tiffany-Castiglioni, head of the Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences (VIBS) at the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM), has loved music from an early age. When she was four years old, her mother taught her piano-later came accordion, harp, cello, and singing. But from a similarly early age of five years […]
Leading in Animal Oncology
Veterinarians at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) serve on the front lines of the war on cancer. Some of their discoveries not only save beloved pets’ lives but also offer hope for treating cancer in humans. As the fastest growing disease on earth, cancer has been the focus of […]
Texas A&M, WT Address Real Issue of Veterinary Colleges
AMARILLO GLOBE-NEWS By Eleanor Green Last Sunday in the Amarillo Globe-News, Texas Tech University officials expressed their desire for a new veterinary school to address a “potential” shortage of veterinarians specializing in large animals and serving rural communities, although the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board confirmed in July there is no need for a second […]
