Research Opportunites for Veterinary Students With PhDs
VETERINARY STUDENTS WHO HOLD PhD DEGRESS ARE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE NIH/MERCK SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM BUT MUST WORK WITH FACULTY WHO CAN SUPPORT THEIR STIPEND COSTS ($5,500 FOR THE SUMMER). The following faculty are available to host summer research students who hold PhDs. Students are in no way limited to these faculty members and are permitted to contact any faculty listed among the departments, graduate groups, or participating faculty lists. However, any potential mentor must be apprised of their responsibility for all costs associated with the summer research project ($5,500 FOR THE SUMMER). For more information on selecting a sponsor, please see "How Do I Find a Research Mentor?"
All students must submit the full application. Additionally, veterinary students with PhDs should use a modified Faculty Sponsor Recommendation/Commitment Form.
Tracy Bale
Deciphering the role stress plays in disrupting homeostasis
Sam Chacko
Pathobiology of smooth muscle, signal transduction, myosin, thin filament-associated protein caldesmon, smooth muscle cell differentiation, translational research
Ina Dobrinski
The biology of male germ line stem cells and spermatozoa in non-rodent mammalian species
Roselyn Eisenberg
Herpes simplex virus (HSV) entry into susceptible cells, and animal models of HSV-1 and HSV-2 disease in their human host
Serge Fuchs
Aberrations of protein ubiquitination and degradation in cancer
Urs Giger
Hereditary disorders of companion animals in particular hematologic and metabolic defects; hematologic diseases and transfusion medicine
Francis Golder
Cellular, neurochemical, and molecular basis of the functional plasticity of phrenic motoneurons that innervate the diaphragm
Kurt Hankenson
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of bone remodeling and regeneration
Olena Jacenko
Processes that control skeletal development
Anna Kashina
Protein modifications, mouse genetics, cancer, cytoskeleton, cardiovascular development, angiogenesis
Andras Komaromy
Inherited retinal degenerations, achromatopsia, ocular gene therapy, glaucoma
James Lok
The endogenous mechanism governing developmental arrest and lifespan in parasitic nematodes
sease, Alagille syndrome, human disease gene identification by mapping deletions
Phil Scott
T-cells and cytokines in infectious disease, particularly Leishmania
Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko
Mechanisms of neoplastic transformation by the Myc oncoprotein as well as host responses to malignant growth, in particular tumor surveillance based on anti-angiogenesis
Charles Vite
Neurodegenerative disorders, lysosomal storage diseases, myotonia congenita.
John Wolfe
Gene transfer in the central nervous system, genetic diseases, animal models, mechanisms of pathology