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Kaitlyn Valenza, left, collaborates in the dry lab dedicated to the RABapp developed by Dr. Gustavo Machado.

Aug 28, 2025

NC State CVM Invests in First Dry Lab to Support Work on Controlling Disease Spread

Recognizing veterinary medicine’s increasingly important role in safeguarding public health, the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine has created a cutting-edge dry laboratory that will accelerate the work of Dr. Gustavo Machado, an associate professor of emerging and transboundary diseases whose research centers on preventing the spread of deadly diseases among livestock farms. The lab…
Dr. Eric Brooks, wearing white coat and glasses, stands in his lab.

Aug 20, 2025

NC State Scientist Develops Map of How Cells Work Together to Become a Brain

By Bethany Brookshire Studying the process of brain formation illuminates just how much of development is a series of tiny miracles. Only a few weeks after a human egg is fertilized, a sheet of cells called the neural plate widens, stretches and rolls up to create a tube. This delicate dance of cells forms what…
The front of the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine

Aug 14, 2025

Study Looks for Markers That Predict Risk of Severe Chlamydia Infection

For Immediate Release Tracey Peake tracey_peake@ncsu.edu A new study has identified markers that may predict whether a chlamydia infection is likely to ascend into the uterus and endometrium. The work could lead to new diagnostics that can predict a woman’s risk of severe infection. Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) is a sexually transmitted bacterium that can lead to…
Dr. Mike Sano in blue shirt demonstrates the technology he uses to deliver electric pulses up to 3000 volts for a millionth of a second to members of the Terrence Curtin Society.

Jul 31, 2025

The Future of Cancer Care Starts Here

Since completing successful clinical trials of his pioneering use of electricity to target and destroy inoperable cancer tumors, Dr. Mike Sano and his team have performed more than 200 treatments on ailing horses at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, highlighting how cutting-edge research at the college often leads directly to life-changing patient care.…
Dr. Megan Dillon leans against a lab bench, posing with her hands on her hips.

Jul 29, 2025

What Do Chernobyl’s Stray Dogs and ‘Jurassic Park’ Have in Common? Ask This Up-And-Coming Population Geneticist

Through NC State’s Genetics and Genomics Scholars program, Ph.D. candidate Megan Dillon has become a leading expert in the population genetics of stray dogs living around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Dr. Nanette Nascone-Yoder in white lab coat with arms crossed in a lab on the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine campus.

Jul 22, 2025

NIH Awards $2.8 Million Grant to NC State Developmental Biologist for Work Investigating Organ Formation

Dr. Nanette Nascone-Yoder, a professor in the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, has been awarded a $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for her research investigating how cellular mechanisms guide left-right asymmetric organ formation. Abnormal left-right asymmetry underlies some of our most common and severe birth…
Dr. Ron Li in white coat and blue gloves looks at a vial in a lab.

Jul 16, 2025

NC State Clinician Scientist Honored for Career Achievements in Feline Research

The American Veterinary Medical Foundation has honored Dr. Ronald Li, an associate professor of emergency and critical care at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, with the 2025 Career Achievement in Feline Research Award.  The award recognizes an American Veterinary Medication Association member for long-time commitment to feline health through research. Dr. Li, who…
VSP participant Brooke Stonemetz wears purple gloves and a white coat as she works with a microscope and slides

Jul 8, 2025

Summer Research Program Opens Doors of Discovery for Veterinary Students 

Many NC State veterinary students are spending this summer getting hands-on learning through internships in animal clinics or externships in equine practices, but more than 50 are working with faculty mentors on campus, knee-deep in research ranging from investigating the role of COVID in neurodegenerative diseases to using electrical pulses to try to induce a…
Dr. Caroline Laplante in a white labcoat standing at her lab bench

Jun 27, 2025

NIH Gives NC State ‘Outstanding Investigator’ a Grant to Advance Her Research on Cell Division

Dr. Caroline Laplante, an associate professor of quantitative and computational biology at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, has received an Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Institutes of Health to advance her work on unraveling the forces that drive cellular division. The grant, called an R35 and funded through the NIH National Institute…

Jun 12, 2025

NC State Scientists Advance Understanding of Cystic Fibrosis by Finding Drug Class to Avoid 

By Bethany Brookshire People with cystic fibrosis are in a constant battle with the thick, sticky mucus that builds up in the airways of their lungs. But while the genetic disease is due to mutations in one specific gene, it takes a score of proteins to make lungs healthy, and not all of them are…