Student, faculty research highlighted at Vet Med

WSU College of Veterinary Medicine held its 19th Annual CVM Student and Post-Doctoral Research Symposium, showcasing quality research.

Of 54 entries in the annual poster competition, judges picked six winners.

Fernanda Gimenez (Dept. of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology), Nicholas Negretti (School of Molecular Biosciences), and Jessica Klein (Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health), won first, second, and third place in the Graduate Student and Post-Doctoral category.

First, second, and third place winners in the Undergraduate and Veterinary Student category were Logan Weyand (Dept. of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology), Keesha Matz (School of Molecular Biosciences) and Lindsey Morey (Dept. of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience).

These winners had research projects focused on improving human and animal health with topics including the immune control of hepatitis C infection, prevention of food-borne bacterial illnesses, understanding the causes of blindness, preventing highly fatal human/animal viral infections, and preventing pneumonia in wild bighorn sheep.

Two faculty research awards were also presented during the reception to Steven Roberts, assistant professor in the School of Molecular Biosciences, for being selected as this year’s recipient of the Dean’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award. Roberts was recognized for his outstanding research productivity focused on genetic alterations in cancer and how to prevent them.

The Zoetis Award for Veterinary Research Excellence recipient was Anthony Nicola, associate professor in the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology. Nicola was recognized for his longstanding research efforts to understand how herpesviruses cause infections in humans and animals and to identify novel drug and vaccine targets.

Please visit the CVM Research Symposium website with pictures of the event.