Fall 2020 CVM Profiles Highlights

January 19, 2021

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Several VBS Faculty members were featured in the Profiles, Fall 2020 issue highlighting the University of Minnesota's, 'All hands on deck' mission to fight COVID-19 (Coronavirus).

stop the spread of covid-19 bannerVBS Professor Hinh Ly and VBS Assistant Professor Matt Aliota discuss combating COVID-19 in the write up "Choices, choices: How are CVM's COVID-19 researchers navigating a more locked-down lifestyle?" This article, authored by Carolyn Bernhardt explores the advancements made on COVID-19 by Drs. Ly and Aliota to improve testing mechanisms, anticipate disease spread, produce accessible treatment options, and develop a vaccine.

Liang, Yuying and Ly, Hinh seated outside ASVM Bldg.VBS Professors Yuying Liang & Hinh Ly talk to writer Carolyn Bernhardt about working as a team and developing therapies and treatments for COVID-19 in the write up, "Always a team: A CVM power couple tackles COVID-19 and life together." The write-up navigates how Drs. Liang and Ly work together as a team in marriage as well as in the laboratory developing therapies and treatments for COVID-19.

Veterinarians pictured with swineVBS Professors Randy Singer, Tim Johnson, and Pomeroy Endowed Chair Carol Cardona provide their perspectives on what livestock disease outbreaks can tell us about COVID-19 in the write-up, "Perspectives: What livestock disease outbreaks can tell us about COVID-19." This co-authored article written by Drs. Cardona, Singer, and Johnson, along with other CVM Faculty highlights the dual mission to focus on population health combining with human health practices including vaccination, herd immunity, biosecurity, isolation, and fecal transplantation, which has been derived from animal agriculture to combat COVID-19.