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New One Campus, One Health Certificate Program will Prepare the Next Generation of One Health Leaders
New certificate equips Penn graduate and professional students with the skills to work across disciplines to improve human, animal, and environmental health.
Community Science Reveals Lasting Impacts of West Nile Virus on Pennsylvania Bird Populations
A new study out of the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine suggests that West Nile virus (WNV) has had impacts on one in five Pennsylvania bird species, demonstrating…
A New Bolton Center team’s beat-the-odds surgery means survival for a special horse
For Monty, a 10-year-old thoroughbred, the odds were about as bad as they get. “Less than 10 percent” – those were the survival odds the gray gelding’s owners remembered being…
Penn Today News
On the move: Water quality and antimicrobial resistance testing goes mobile (link is external)
Penn researchers have developed a mobile field laboratory allowing them to test water quality and track antimicrobial resistance in and around San Cristóbal in the Galápagos.
What a ‘silenced’ chromosome can tell us about autoimmunity (link is external)
Two studies led by Penn Vet’s Montserrat Anguera examine the process of X chromosome inactivation in immune cells, paving the way to a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying…
Stress tested, testing stress: Novel organoid models how the adrenal gland develops (link is external)
Researchers led by Penn Vet’s Kotaro Sasaki and Michinori Mayama have developed an organoid system that faithfully mimics how the human adrenal gland develops and forms complex tissue structures, providing…
In the Media
American Animal Hospital Association
Lorazepam reduces the risk of recurrent urethral obstruction in male cats (link is external)
Bellwether Features
Thinking Like a VMD, Earlier
When the Class of 2026 arrived at Penn Vet, they stepped into a great unknown. Their first year was also the start of the School’s modernized curriculum. V’26 would be…
She Who Rules
Maeve was never your average lamb, and from the start Emily Jaramillo, V’26, was smitten.
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