Research Week Awards recognize researchers and staff excellence
The Office of Research recognized the winners of this year’s research excellence awards and Research Week grant competitions on Friday, Oct. 21.
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Students, faculty recognized for research excellence at annual symposium
The research symposium honors students and faculty every year for contributions to their field.
WSU awarded $2.6 million in grants to improve infectious disease modeling
A pair of federal grants will help researchers better understand and predict how infectious diseases behave and spread in health care settings and other small populations.
Newly discovered COVID‑like virus could infect humans, resist vaccines
A WSU-led research team found spike proteins from the bat virus, Khosta-2, can infect human cells and is resistant to both the monoclonal antibodies and serum from individuals vaccinated for SARS-CoV-2.
Bears’ ability to regulate insulin narrowed down to eight proteins
Feeding honey to hibernating bears helped researchers find the potential genetic keys to the bears’ insulin control, an advance that could lead to a treatment for human diabetes.
Genetic discovery could lead to better treatments for common tumor in dogs
Newly discovered genetic commonalities and differences among prevalent types of canine soft tissue sarcomas, a potentially deadly tumor, could pave the way for better diagnosis and treatments.
Brucellosis research bolstered by $2.75 million NIH grant
The National Institutes of Health grant will allow researchers at WSU to explore how bacterial proteins work together to cause one of the world’s most widespread diseases transferred from animals to humans.
Gene editing technology may help address world hunger
Washington State University Professor Jon Oatley covered the growing problem of food insecurity and how genome engineering may help feed the planet during a talk titled “The Human-Animal Genomic Bond.”
College of Veterinary Medicine awarded NIH grant to combat zoonotic disease
The funding will continue post-doctoral programs to train scientists in infectious diseases and microbial immunology.
Infectious disease and immunology fellow to continue research into tick disease
Elis Fisk, a fourth-year anatomic pathology resident and doctoral student at Washington State University, has been accepted as a fellow in the College of Veterinary Medicine’s infectious disease and microbial immunology post-doctoral training program.