A Nestlé Purina PetCare grant of nearly $1 million over 5 years will support the School of Veterinary Medicine's G.V. Ling Urinary Stone Analysis Laboratory. It will allow companion animal veterinarians to provide free urinary stone analysis results to their patients.
This summer I traveled to the beautiful country of Rwanda and spent 7 weeks working with veterinarians at the University of Rwanda and New Vision Veterinary Hospital. While I was there, I was able to assist with sample collections for part of a 3 year research project in Akagera National Park aiming to collect more data on the current levels of antimicrobial resistance in wildlife and domestic species.
This past summer, I had the incredible opportunity to spend three weeks in Malawi, a beautiful country in Southeast Africa. During my stay at the Lilongwe Wildlife Center, Malawi’s only wildlife sanctuary, I gained invaluable hands-on clinical experience and conducted research alongside veteran wildlife veterinarians. Each morning, I began my day by bottle-feeding orphaned servals, vervet monkeys, and duikers, before moving on to medicate resident patients. I would then go to the clinic where we performed the medical procedures scheduled for that day.
What should a business owner do when a favorite employee gets cancer? What if that employee is a cat? When Horatio, “Assistant Manager Cat” of Seventh Son Brewing Co. in Columbus, Ohio—loved by guests and staff alike—was diagnosed with fibrosarcoma, the brewery took an unconventional approach to help both Horatio and the species. Seventh Son opened a GoFundMe for which 50 percent of the proceeds go to Horatio’s treatment, and the other 50 percent to the UC Davis Feline Cancer Research Fund and an Ohio organization dedicated to saving pets' lives through funding veterinary care.
Dr. Stephen McSorley, professor in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, was honored with the 2023 Zoetis Award for Research Excellence
Inaugural Reaching Across the Causeway awards will fund collaborative pilot studies between researchers at the UC Davis Schools of Veterinary Medicine and Medicine to address complex health issues.
Eighteen million years ago, a genetic duplication event coincided with the evolutionary split between horses and their four-toed, forest-browsing ancestors.
Congratulations to Veterinary Scientist Training Program (VSTP) students Jenn Cossaboon, Chase Garcia, Erin Hisey, and Aryana Razmara for receiving prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) F30/F31 awards.
Veterinary medicine continues to find commonalities among conditions that affect animals and humans. This week, Dr. Monica Aleman presented an overview at the Platinum Summit in San Antonio of Juvenile Idiopathic Epilepsy (JIE) in Egyptian Arabian foals—an epileptic syndrome similar to one found in infants.
