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Throughout the year, Penn Vet hosts seminars, conferences, symposiums, and speaker series, which serve as forums for academics to share the latest research approaches breakthroughs in a wide array of subjects.
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Veins in the lungs, or pulmonary veins, play a critical role not only in lung functioning but also in maintaining sufficient oxygen in tissue throughout the body. When a person sustains pulmonary injury from an illness like influenza or COVID, repair of blood vessels and the creation of new ones is vital to meet oxygen demands; however, research in these areas remains underexplored.
Michael J. Hogan, PhD, assistant professor of Pathobiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet), has been awarded a one-year grant from the W.W. Smith Charitable Trust. The grant will fund Hogan’s investigation aimed at gaining a clearer understanding of a particular type of immune response that could pave the way for developing a safe and effective HIV/AIDS vaccine using pioneering mRNA technology.
Joy Tomlinson, DVM, PhD, DACVIM, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) assistant professor of large animal medicine, has received the inaugural 2024 Veterinary Pathology Editor’s Choice Award for an Observational Study for the 2023 manuscript "Naturally acquired equine parvovirus-hepatitis is associated with a wide range of hepatic lesions in horses." Tomlinson was honored with the award during the Annual Meeting of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists on November 19th in Seattle.
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) School of Veterinary Medicine’s (Penn Vet) Institute for Infectious and Zoonotic Diseases (IIZD) hosted its inaugural research retreat on November 15 in Chadds Ford, Pa. The retreat gathered more than 50 leading infectious disease experts, students, fellows, and key stakeholders from Penn Vet, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM).
Mortality rates from Ebola outbreaks can be as high as 90%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and 55 people died in the most recent outbreak in Uganda in 2022. The virus continues to evolve, but currently approved vaccines and therapeutics remain limited. And Ronald N. Harty, professor of pathobiology and microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, and Jingjing Liang, a research associate in the Harty Lab, still have a lot of questions.