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VBS Assistant Professor Peter Larsen hopes to reduce the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease in deer by producing faster testing that can be conducted in the field as well as test meat processing equipment to avoid potential risks for consumers.

VBS faculty and staff present posters and received awards at the 2021 CVM Education Day virtual event on Friday, May 20, 2021.

Up until now, there has never been a formal poultry training program in the state of Minnesota.

Eight VBS graduate students were awarded fellowships and/or grants in the following categories: 2021-2022 MnDRIVE Global Food Venture Fellowship; 2021-2022 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship; Comparative Pathology/Medicine T32 Training grant; and American CARES Act Degree Completion grants.

Professor Tim Johnson and Research Project Specialist Bonnie Weber, collaborated to publish a study about the respiratory microbiome of broiler flocks from hatching to processing.

A team of researchers, led by Tiffany Wolf, DVM, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Veterinary Population Medicine at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM), and Seth Moore, PhD, director of biology and environment at the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, recently published studies that prioritized contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) based on their potential environmental threat and evaluated human activities and environmental factors’ effects on CEC presence in Minnesota lakes.

In recognition of the value and need for research with direct application to the swine veterinary profession, the American Association of Swine Veterinarians (AASV) Foundation granted $25,111 to Guilherme Milanez Preis, PhD student in the Veterinary Medicine Graduate Program, and Cesar Corzo, DVM, MS, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, to assess senecavirus A (SVA) shedding and transmission in growing pig populations.

University of Minnesota researchers at the Minnesota Center for Prion Research (MNPRO) have developed a novel approach to field testing chronic wasting disease (CWD).

Researchers from three University of Minnesota colleges, including the College of Veterinary Medicine Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, and Scottish Rite for Children teamed up to determine if advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques that detect the dynamics of water molecules could detect early-stage bone damage in Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD).

Researchers in the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) recently identified specific B cells with the ability to neutralize porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS), one of the biggest threats to the global pork industry.