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    Penn Vet Faculty Awarded State Agricultural Research Grants in Multiple Areas

    In recognition of leadership in agriculture, health and the environment, the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) has been awarded several newly announced state agricultural research grants.

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    Penn Vet Scientist Receives USDA NIFA Funding to Advance Early-Life Probiotic Strategies for Dairy Calves

    The Mark Whittier and Lila Griswold Allam Associate Professor of Ruminant Nutrition, Dipti Pitta, PhD, at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) has received a $650,000…

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    Penn Vet’s Dean Andrew Hoffman Highlights Vaccination, Veterinary Support in Fight Against Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza

    As Pennsylvania confronts its largest avian influenza outbreak in years, the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine’s (Penn Vet) Gilbert S. Kahn Dean of Veterinary Medicine, Andrew M. Hoffman,…

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    Biomarkers Help Crack the Code on Saving More Equine Lives

    In both animals and humans, biomarkers can signal that something has gone awry. For clinicians, they are valuable tools – once they are identified.

    Amanda Watkins

    Advancing veterinary medicine through interdisciplinary research
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    For many, veterinary school is the gateway to a clearly defined career — diagnosing and treating animals in a clinical setting. But for Amanda Watkins, that journey took an unexpected…

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    Moving Closer to ‘True’ Equine IVF for Clinical Use

    Katrin Hinrichs, Harry Werner Endowed Professor of Equine Medicine, and colleagues developed a technique that would allow successful conventional in vitro fertilization (IVF) with horses.

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    Newly Identified Gene Deletion in Standard Poodles Sheds Light on Severe Vision Disorder

    Inherited retinal diseases form a broad and complex group of genetic conditions that cause progressive vision loss and blindness. Dogs, like humans, are susceptible to many such disorders. Because of…

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    Penn Vet’s Nicola Mason, BVetMed, PhD, DACVIM, FRCVS, Receives Penn Center for Innovation’s Inventor of the Year Award

    The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) congratulates Dr. Nicky Mason, the Paul A. James and Charles A. Gilmore Endowed Chair Professor and Professor of Medicine…

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    Identifying genes that keep cancer from spreading (link is external)

    Using a novel approach, Penn Vet’s Chris Lengner and M. Andrés Blanco and colleagues have identified two genes that suppress colorectal cancer metastasis.

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    In the Office with Donna Kelly, DVM, MASCP, DACPV, DACVPM

    Donna Kelly, DVM, MASCP, DACPV, DACVPM, shares her New Bolton Center office with the campus’s microbiology reference library.

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