CVM Researchers Develop Diagnostic Test for 11 Tick-Borne Diseases
The warmer weather can mean many things for pet owners in Texas. Chief among those should be ticks. The domestic Brown Dog, Lone Star, Gulf Coast, and other ticks are the cause of the thousands of tick-borne disease cases reported annually in the United States. Thanks to a diagnostic test created by researchers in the […]
Texas A&M’s Chiu Receives Grant Through Gulf Research Program
Weihsueh Chiu, a professor in the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences’ (CVM) Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences (VIBS), has received a $700,000 grant from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Gulf Research Program (GRP). Chiu’s project on “Prioritizing Risks from Oil Spills: Supporting Decisions with Read-Across Using 21st Century […]
Dr. Sarah Hamer Protects Human, Animal Lives Through Kissing Bugs Project
Stumbling across an unidentified large black bug in your house may make you feel panicked or even curious. Should you smash it with a nearby shoe? Or scoop it up in a cup and release it outside? If that insect happens to be a kissing bug, you have another option-send it to Dr. Sarah Hamer […]
Texas A&M’s Andersson, Research Team Observe New Species Among Darwin’s Finches
A team of scientists including Texas A&M University and Uppsala University professor Leif Andersson has discovered the origin of a new species of finch living among Darwin’s finches in the Galápagos archipelago. Published on Thursday, Nov. 23, in the journal Science, their study reports that the new lineage was formed by the hybridization of two […]
Dr. Kate Creevy: Research, In Dog Years
Aging is a universal experience, shared by both humans and animals. But many mysteries still surround the aging process. Now, the collaborative Dog Aging Project between the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM), the University of Washington, and other colleges and organizations is set to chip away at these mysteries to […]
Texas A&M Receives NIEHS Superfund Grant to Conduct Environmental Research
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Texas A&M Superfund Research Center scientists from across campus will conduct four environmental research projects funded by a five-year, $10 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). Established in 1987, the NEIHS Superfund Research Program is a highly competitive grant-based program that funds a network of 16 […]
Texas A&M Professor Receives Grant for Lifesaving Childhood Cancer Research
Dr. Heather Wilson-Robles, an associate professor and the Dr. Fred A. and Vola N. Palmer Chair in Comparative Oncology in the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences’ (CVM) Small Animal Clinical Sciences Department, has been awarded a $94,255 research grant from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation to support her studies of childhood bone […]
Texas A&M Professor Explores Why Peruvian Parrots Eat Clay
For more than 16 years, researchers and volunteers have been observing wildlife along the clay cliffs of Southeastern Peru’s Tambopata River. They’ve gathered data every day, logging more than 20,000 hours and building one of the most extensive datasets on tropical parrots in the world. In a new paper published in Ibis, Elizabeth Hobson, a […]
Texas A&M Professor Works with NIH-Supported Scientists to Elicit Broadly Neutralizing HIV Antibodies
A team of scientists including Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) associate professor of immunology Dr. Michael Criscitiello have achieved a significant step forward in HIV research, eliciting broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) to the virus by immunizing calves. The National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported scientists reported the findings in a paper […]
It’s Safe to Say–Impact Begins at Discovery
Discovery and the unexpected—these are recurring themes in the research career of Dr. Stephen Safe, a distinguished professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM). Trained as a chemist, Safe eventually found himself studying toxicology and examining the biochemical mechanisms of cancer with the hopes of developing effective drug treatments. Safe […]
