VPM faculty researhers are constantly creating new knowledge in a wide range of basic and clinical fields. Below is a brief list of some of the areas VPM faculty are working on:
- Animal and public health policy
- Animal models of disease
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Assisted reproductive technologies
- Bovine mastitis
- Diagnostic medicine
- Disease eradication
- Economics of food animal production
- Epidemiology
- Equine and bovine laser surgery
- Equine performance evaluation
- Evolution of bacterial virulence
- Food safety
- Immunity and addictive drugs
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- Infectious diseases
- Milk quality
- Milking equipment
- Muscle disorders of large animals
- Neonatal nutrition
- Orthopedic diseases
- Pathobiology of cancer
- Pharmacology of instestinal motility
- Prion isoform conversion
- Swine health and welfare
- Swine production optimization
- Virus detection in the environment
- Zoo animal medicine
- Zoonotic diseases
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Of course, to do research requires funding. Some examples of projects that have been
recently funded by the Rapid Agricultural
Response Fund (RARF) are listed below. The Rapid Agricultural Response Fund is allocated annually
by the Minnesota Legislature. Funded projects address urgent agricultural and natural resource industry issues.
(In this round of RARF funding, all of the awards to the College of Veterinary Medicine went to VPM faculty)
Dr. Srinand Sreevatsan: "Response to Bovine Tuberculosis in Minnesota
with Novel Approaches to Unambiguous Detection," has received funding
of $94,000
Dr. John Deen: "Developing a welfare-based approach to lameness
in sows," has
received funding of $70,000
Dr. Sandra Godden: “Improving Colostrum Quality and Passive Transfer
in Dairy Calves,” has received funding of $38,200
Dr. Steve Stewart: “Refinement of Stationary Panel Readers for Use
with Radio Frequency ID (RFID) Eartags in Dairy Cattle,” has received
funding of $40,000
Dr. Peter Davies: “Detection and Control of Postweaning
Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome (PMWS) in the Minnesota Swine Industry,” has
received funding of $100,000
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