Dr. Rowan Milner and Dr. Maria von Chamier of the UF College of Veterinary Medicine are part of a collaboration with the UF Colleges of Engineering and Medicine to characterize the microanatomy of the Yucatan miniature swine model to study targeting and delivery of alpha-particle dosimetry. The model characterization will…
Isabelle M. Llabona, Dr. Aria Eshraghi, and Ashley Clarke have unexpectedly found that a widely used pesticide also hampers the growth of a highly infectious bacterial pathogen responsible for tularemia, a disease affecting both animals and humans. Please click here for the full story.
UF’s Emerging Pathogens Institute has written an article on the rise of babesiosis, a tick-borne disease, throughout the US. It details the work that IDI’s postdoctoral associate Dr. Jeff Gruntmeir and the Dinglasan Lab have done to track the spread of this emerging pathogen. Please click…
Please join Infectious Diseases and Immunology in congratulating our illustrious faculty members who were recently recognized for their many contributions to science! Dr. Roy Curtiss received the 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Chicago Dr. David Pascual received the 2023 Zoetis Award for Veterinary Research Excellence Dr. Liang…
Our very own Dr. Cuong Nguyen was featured today on the UF Health Newsroom regarding his recently published COVID-19 study. Click here for the article, and here for the original study. Dr. Cuong Nguyen, Assistant Professor,…
Jeff Gruntmeir, a graduate student in the college’s department of comparative, diagnostic and population medicine mentored by Heather Walden, Ph.D., has received the 2021 American Association of Veterinary Parasitologists-Merck Outstanding Graduate Student Award. Gruntmeir’s research is focused on the mosquito-transmitted canine heartworm, Dirofilaria immitis, as well as other…
A new $1.29 million grant will support Dr. Rhoel Dinglasan’s work to develop a saliva-based malaria diagnostic test.
ID&I was well-represented at Phi Zeta Day in 2018, particularly among those recognized with awards for their presentations and posters.
Dr. Mary Brown’s recent research explores a rare genetic mutation that causes resistance to the quinolone antibiotic levofloxacin in a bacterium associated with urinary tract infections…
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