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A Visual Link to Human and Veterinary Medicine
At the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM), modern medical imaging technology and techniques have transformed how researchers and doctors view and interpret cells and tissues. The CVM has assembled an unparalleled collection of advanced imaging technologies that are being used in basic, clinical, and translational research as well as diagnostic […]
Communicating Complexity and Transforming Interdisciplinary Research
When a loved one is diagnosed with cancer, the first questions that often come to mind are, “why did this happen to them,” and “what can I do.” Faced with this very situation, Dr. Ivan Ivanov, clinical associate professor in bioinformatics at the Texas A&M; College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM), began a […]
Texas A&M Professor Receives the 2015 Piper Professor Award
COLLEGE STATION, May 18, 2015 – Dr. Louise Abbott of the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences has been named a recipient of the 2015 Piper Professor Award, a prestigious faculty honor bestowed by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation. Ten Piper Professor Awards of $5,000 each are made annually to professors for […]
Making Room for Transformative Teaching
When the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences moves into its new complex in 2016, the space will be larger, modern, and full of light. More importantly, it will fundamentally change the way professors teach and students learn. The new facilities will foster learning rather than constraining it. “We spend a […]
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 […]
