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.
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.”
The funding will continue post-doctoral programs to train scientists in infectious diseases and microbial immunology.
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.
Stephanie Seifert has been named as a co‑lead investigator for a new National Science Foundation-funded institute designed to advance research and education around viral emergence.
A $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will allow WSU researchers to take the next steps toward blocking transmission of Lyme disease and anaplasmosis.
The current monkeypox outbreak is moving faster than any in recent history, but WSU virologist Heather Koehler does not see a reason for the rapid spread in the virus itself.
Since its launch in January 2021, fifteen proposals have received nearly $575,000 in funding through Cougar Cage events.
It is common for general practice veterinarians to see patients suffering from neurological conditions, yet many veterinary students beginning their careers say they feel unprepared for those cases, according to a soon-to-be-published study led by Washington State University neurology veterinarian Vishal Murthy.
A disease in elk that causes deformed hooves and eventually leads to lameness and death is also associated with abnormal, asymmetrical antlers, a WSU‑led study of hunter reports found.
