UGA welcomes 114 incoming veterinary students in White Coat Ceremony
114 new veterinary students received their white coats in the CVM's annual ceremony.
AAVP Recognizes Dr. Ray Kaplan and Lab at Conference
The American Association of Veterinary Parasitologists (AAVP) awarded Ray Kaplan with the Distinguished Veterinary Parasitolgist Award. It is the highest award the AAVP awards and is internationally recognized.
Veteran’s service dog recovering after Middle Georgia wreck leaves him ‘almost paralyzed’
Check out this story WGXA did on one of our patients. We are so thankful to be a part of Dutch’s recovery story! He is an amazing dog.
CVM represented in the National Conservation Leadership Institute 2018 class
Mark Ruder, assistant research scientist at the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study accepted to October 2018 NCLI cohort
College of Veterinary Medicine welcomes director of development
Kelley Gibson has joined the CVM as the senior director of development.
UGA CVM joins U.S.-China Joint DVM Scholarship Program
UGA CVM joins U.S.-China Joint DVM Scholarship Program
New findings link estrogen and T cell immune response to autoimmune inflammation
Women are more prone to the development of autoimmune diseases. The female hormone estrogen is likely to affect the immune system. A team of scientists from Turku Center for Biotechnology and University of Georgia reported new findings related to the involvement of estrogen hormone receptor in autoimmune diseases.
Harvill Group Awarded New Grant to Study Transmission
The grant funds new work seeking to identify exactly which genes transmission requires. Isolating genes of the virulence factor (transmission exopolysaccharide) will aid in determining functions. These complex sugars that bacteria secrete into a capsule around their cell body have unknown transmission-related properties. Dr. Harvill explains, “It takes a lot of energy for bacteria to secrete these large sugars, so they must be doing something important.”
UGA CVM accepted as member of Clinical and Translational Science Award One Health Alliance
The University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine has been accepted as a member of the Clinical and Translational Science Award One Health Alliance (COHA).
UGA and Emory awarded four-year $2.6M NIH grant to study cystic fibrosis
A collaboration between researchers at the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine, College of Public Health and Emory University’s Cystic Fibrosis Center recently was awarded a four-year grant that will lead to a better understanding of lung inflammation in cystic fibrosis patients.
