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Texas A&M Professors Collaborate to Take Up Fight Against Emerging Zoonotic Disease
A disease most people have never heard of, which has come to the Americas only in the last year, may soon become a major public health issue in the United States. Chikungunya (pronunciation: chik-en-gun-ye) virus has been recognized as the cause of periodic epidemics in Africa and Asia since the 1950s and has now spread […]
One Health Learning Community Provides High-Impact Educational Opportunities
“It has shown me that everything influences health,” said Katelyn Franck, an animal science major at Texas A&M; University. She was talking about the One Health learning community, a non-credit course experience for first-year students majoring in any of a variety of fields. It introduces them to the concept of One Health: the collaborative effort […]
Advancing Translational Cancer Research
A Veterinarian from the Beginning Dr. Heather Wilson-Robles has known since she was a young child that she wanted to work with animals. “In kindergarten,” she said, “I had the teacher help me spell ‘veterinarian.’ I’ve never wanted to do anything else.” Born and raised in Memphis, it was only natural that Wilson-Robles’ journey to […]
Texas A&M Develops New Vaccine To Combat Lethal Disease Affecting Captive Parrots
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Researchers at the Texas A&M; College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) have developed a highly effective vaccine against a lethal virus disease of captive parrots. The disease, called Proventricular Dilatation Disease (PDD), results in blindness, heart failure, or intestinal blockage. It is caused by a virus called Avian Bornavirus. Use of […]
Texas A&M To Open New Avian Health Complex Thursday
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – A new avian health complex will be formally opened Thursday (Aug. 13) at the Texas A&M; University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM), which hosts one of the top avian medicine programs in the nation. The ceremony will begin at 1:00 pm. The new climate-controlled aviary, which is […]
Taking caring to another level: A collaborative effort
Scientists face many uncertainties about Ebola and dogs, although most agree that there is not evidence dogs develop clinical disease. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say no cases have been reported of dogs becoming infected and shedding Ebola to humans-even in West Africa. However, a study in the […]
Texas A&M CVM Dean Eleanor M. Green Begins Term as AAVMC President
BOSTON –Dr. Eleanor Green, the Carl B. King Dean of Veterinary Medicine at the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, has begun her term as president of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC). “It’s an honor for me to have this opportunity to lead the AAVMC and I’m very […]
Texas A&M, Chinese Agriculture Experts Establish Global One Health Exchange
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – A team of faculty members from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (COALS) left for China on July 11 to participate in the U.S.–China Scientific Cooperation One Health Exchange Program. The objective of the collaborative effort is to provide […]
Dr. Dindot Working With Students on Autism Research
Through their own initiative, both Dylan Ritter-a sophomore at the University of Mississippi-and Kathleen Nelson-a high school senior from Illinois-discovered Dr. Scott Dindot’s genomics lab. While their friends took off for vacation and summer fun, they chose to come to Texas A&M University to work on autism research with Dindot in the College of Veterinary […]
EPA Awards Texas A&M Researchers $6 Million Grant to Investigate Environmental Impact on Cardiac Health
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded a $6 million grant to fund a multi-institutional collaboration between the Texas A&M; College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) and the Bioinformatics Research Center at North Carolina State University (NCSU) investigating the effects of environmental toxicants on human health with a focus […]