VETERINARY PATHOBIOLOGY (VTPB)

pathogens” – Patent # 11,013,792

• Dr. Scott Dindot – “Angelman syndrome antisense treatment” - Patent# 11,198,869

Graduate Students/Residents/Trainees

• Yifei Liao: 2022 Texas A&M University Distinguished Dissertation Award in Biological and Life Sciences

• Max Chung: abstract for CRWAD 2023 accepted for poster.

• Christopher Panaretos: abstract for CRWAD 2023 accepted for poster

• Dr. Caroline Sobotyk: 2022 VMBS Outstanding Postdoctoral Associate Award and 2022 AAVP Young Investigator Travel Grant ($700)

• Matt Kulpa: 2022 ASP Student Award and 2022 AAVP Young Investigator Travel Grant ($700)

• Kaylee Kipp: Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 Choctaw Nation Scholarship ($4,100); 2022 Texas Bison Association Meeting, Invited Speaker – travel & lodging expenses; 2022 AAVP Young Investigator Travel Grant ($700); 2022 ASP Student Award; 2022 Texas A&M Walter W. Lechner Estate Scholarship ($1,025)

• Maureen Kelly (PhD student): 2021 Texas A&M Walter W. Lechner Estate Scholarship ($1,025); 2022 AAVP Young Investigator Travel Grant ($700); 2022 ASP Student Award

• Hannah Danks: 2022 AAVP Young Investigator Travel Grant ($700)

• Dr. Clinson Lui: International Society of Dermatopathologist grant, for his PhD project "Use of Keratinocytoids to Study Atopic Dermatitis" ($10,000)

• Dr. Rebecca Bacon passed her American College of Veterinary Pathologist Board Examination and received funding for her research through Dr. Albert Mulenga’s NIH T32 grant. With Dr. Carolyn Hodo, clinical assistant professor at M.D. Anderson (co-chair of Dr. Bacon’s committee), Dr. Bacon wrote a grant to the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine that was funded to support our collaborative research on Campylobacter species in rhesus macaques. The award was made to Dr. Hodo at M.D. Anderson. The Lawhon Lab provides support work through fee-for-service testing of specimens.

• Ariana Cherry: 1st Place Platform Presentation at the 2022 VMBS Trainee Research Symposium; VMBS Graduate Student Association Travel Award to present research at the 2022 ACVIM annual meeting for her abstract: A.D. Cherry1, C. Chu, S. Jacobson3, R. Cianciolo, J. Hokamp, M. Nabity. Urinary miRNA 126 is elevated in dogs with immune complex-mediated glomerulonephritis (Oral). CVMBS Trainee Research Symposium, College Station, TX, May 2022.

• Kaitlin Casanova-Hampton: 34d Place Platform Presentation at the 2022 VMBS Trainee Research Symposium

• Dr. Katarina Yi: ACVIM Resident Research Award for her abstract K. Yi, N. Jeffery, M.B. Nabity, A. Cook, J. Heseltine. Effect of fasting versus feeding on selected biochemical analytes in 100 healthy dogs (Oral). American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Annual Forum, Austin, TX, June 22-25, 2022.

• Emily Bencosme-Cuevas: VMBS Trainee Research Symposium People’s Choice for Poster Award and VMBS John Paul Delaplane Award

• Sarai Milliron: L.P. Jones Pathology Resident Award

• Christen Robinson: Board Certified in Lab Animal Medicine

• Briana Bywaters: North American Vascular Biology Organization Travel Award to Attend the Gordon Research Conference on; Endothelial Cell Phenotypes in Health and Disease: Understanding Endothelial Cell Diversity, Regulation and Regenerative Potential in Barcelona, Spain.

Staff

• Dr. Gus Wright: Outstanding Research Support Award

Faculty Promotions

• Dr. Artem Rogovskyy: Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure

• Dr. Sarguru Subash: Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure