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CVM Faculty, Staff and Student Accolades

The MU College of Veterinary Medicine salutes our faculty, staff and students for their many achievements. We take pride in sharing their accomplishments.

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Alumni Receives Who’s Who Lifetime Achievement Award

Jorge RibasMarquis Who’s Who has presented Jorge Ribas, DVM, with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. Ribas, an alumnus of the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine, is a native of Ecuador who came to the United States in 1963 with limited knowledge of English. Upon his arrival, he attended Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri, as well as Southwest Missouri State University, now known as Missouri State University, in Springfield, Missouri. After graduation he moved on to the MU College of Veterinary Medicine, where he earned a doctorate in 1971.

The Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, according to the Who’s Who Lifetime Achievement website, recognizes individuals who have achieved greatness in their industry. These individuals have excelled in their field for at least 20 years.

Now residing in Gaithersburg, Maryland, Ribas was honored by the Marquis Who’s Who organization for his numerous accomplishments in the fields of medical science, business, and community activism. Some of his most significant imprints on the medical community were his efforts in planning and implementing congressionally mandated programs for Gulf War Syndrome, drug addiction in Vietnam Veterans, and HIV infection and AIDS. He has served as the president of multiple healthcare and nonprofit organizations, and co-founded and was named the first president of the Mid Atlantic Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

By Nick Childress

Sarah Young Named Presenter at 2021 Crohn’s and Colitis Congress

Sarah YoungSarah Young, DVM, graduate fellow, has been selected as a presenter for the 2021 Crohn’s and Colitis Congress for her poster submission. The Crohn’s and Colitis Congress is a partnership of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation and the American Gastroenterological Association. The congress brings together and empowers a multidisciplinary community of health care practitioners and researchers to transform inflammatory bowel disease care.

The title of her project is “Evaluating the Role of Goblet Cell Associated Antigen Passages (Gaps) in the Development of Mucosal Immune Tolerance in the CFTR KO Intestine.” This work was named a poster of distinction for presentation and the submission scored in the top 10 percent of poster abstracts. The Crohn’s and Colitis Congress will take place virtually and is scheduled for Jan. 21-24, 2021.

CVM Students Named Recipients of CVM Phi Zeta Research Grants

Ten students in the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine have been named recipients of college Phi Zeta research grants. Phi Zeta is the national honor society of veterinary medicine. The recipients will be awarded funds that will support their individual proposed projects, which will be presented at the CVM Research Day on May 7, 2021.

The recipients are as follows:

Carley Allen, whose faculty sponsor is Brian Flesner, for her project called “Investigating the Effects of SHIP Inhibition on Canine Osteosarcoma Cell Migration and Colonization.”

Kourtney Dowler, whose faculty sponsors are Elizabeth Giuliano and Aaron Ericsson, for her project, “Commercially Available Sterile Intraocular Lenses Commonly Used in Canine Cataract Surgery: A Microbiome Investigation.”

Elisabeth Fox, whose faculty sponsor is Bryan Torres, for her project, “The Evaluation of Commercially Available Paw Traction Products for Dogs.”

Samantha Haw, whose faculty sponsors are John Middleton and Pamela Adkins, for her project, “Identifying Putative Bacterial Pathogens Isolated from the Milk of Jersey Dairy Cows that were Unidentifiable Using Our Current Laboratory Methods.”

Lyndsey Hayden, whose faculty sponsors are Megan McCracken, Aaron Stoker and Philip Johnson, for her project, “Hyperosmolar Irrigation Compared with a Standard Solution in an Equine Stifle Arthroscopy Model.”

Gabrielle Hofmann, whose faculty sponsors are David Kline and Eileen Hasser, for her project, “The Effects of Vagotomy on Cardiorespiratory Function and Glutamate Regulation in the Brainstem Nucleus Tractus Solitarii.”

Christa Jackson, whose faculty sponsor is Charles Brown, for her project, “The Role of Annexin A1 in Resolution of Murine Lyme Arthritis.”

Kristen McCurdy, whose faculty sponsors are Tamara Gull and Megan McCracken, for her project, “The Effect of Intra-Articular Morphine on Amikacin Antimicrobial Activity and Concentration.”

Lauren Ross, whose faculty sponsor is Angela McCleary-Wheeler, for her project, “Correlation of HDAC3 Activity and PD-L1 in Canine Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma.”

Sarah Young, whose faculty sponsor is Lane Clarke, for her project “Evaluating the Fecal Microbiome of an Intestinal Specific Ctfr Knockout Mouse Model of Cystic Fibrosis.”

CMTRF Awards Grant to Lorson and Garcia for CMT Disease Research

Christian Lorson
Christian Lorson

The Charcot-Marie-Tooth Research Foundation has awarded Chris Lorson, PhD, professor in the MU College of Veterinary Medicine Department of Veterinary Pathobiology and associate dean for Research and Graduate Studies, and Michael Garcia, PhD, an associate professor of biological sciences in MU’s College of Arts and Sciences, a $200,000 grant for their research focusing on CMT disease. Their study is “A precision medicine-based approach for CMT2E.”

According to the CMTRF website, CMT is a disease involving the peripheral nerves that branch out from the brain and spinal cord to other parts of the body, including the arms, hands, legs and feet. Lorson and Garcia’s research focuses on treatments for specific types of CMT instead of a one-size-fits-all that would target the average patient.

Michael Garcia

A press release from CMTRF highlights the process and goals of this research, stating, “Drs. Lorson and Garcia will develop and test a new gene therapy approach that will both silence the abnormal gene and simultaneously replace it with genetic material that will produce normal protein. The research team will test this approach in an animal model of CMT2E that is already well understood, making it suitable for this proof-of-concept project. If the approach is successful, it could potentially be used for other forms of CMT as well. In fact, it is possible this approach could be used for many CMT-causing mutations that require both silencing of a mutated gene and replacement with normal protein, whether the mutation is currently known or has yet to be discovered. The ability to silence and replace genes, regardless of the specific mutation, is what makes this a precision medicine approach.”

 

Fales Named E.B. Pope Award Recipient by AAVLD

Professor Emeritus William Fales
William Fales

University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine Professor Emeritus William Fales, PhD, has received the 2020 American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians E.P. Pope Award. The award is the highest recognition for significant contributions to the organization and the field of veterinary diagnostic laboratory medicine.

Fales began serving the CVM in 1974 as a research associate in the Department of Veterinary Microbiology. From 1975 to 1981 he was an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and served as a clinical microbiologist for the Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory and what was then the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. In 1981 he became a tenured associate professor, and in 1986 was named a full professor. He was elected as an honorary diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Microbiologists in 1992. In August of 2015 he retired from MU and accepted an adjunct appointment and was named professor emeritus.

This award is the latest of many honors bestowed on Fales. He previously received the Missouri Veterinary Medical Association President’s Award, as well as induction into the Missouri Veterinary Medical Foundation’s Veterinary Honor Roll. At the time of induction to the Honor Roll, Fales was the only non-DVM to be admitted.

In his E.P. Pope Award acceptance speech, Fales said, “Prior recipients of the E.B. Pope Award were giants that allowed me to stand on their shoulders and gain insight into the future. This award is truly the capstone of my career and I am delighted to accept the E.B. Pope Award. It is truly an honor to be recognized for work that I thoroughly enjoyed doing.”

By Nick Childress

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