Inside the bat cave: How do bats stay healthy while hosting viruses that cause vicious disease in people?
CSU Magazine: How do bats stay healthy while hosting viruses that cause vicious disease in people? The answers could lead to COVID-19 cures.
CSU Magazine: How do bats stay healthy while hosting viruses that cause vicious disease in people? The answers could lead to COVID-19 cures.
Dr. Robert Callan is a vet at Colorado State University, and he also has a PhD in virology. "They found that a couple of these antibodies do a very, very, very effective job of neutralizing the virus. There's a lot of things that won't work," Callan says of coronavirus research, "but hopefully we find a few gems in there, and this could be one of them."
Though we are unable to celebrate with you in person, all of us within the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences offer our heartfelt congratulations and wish you the very best as you transition into the next chapter of your lives.
"I'm just so grateful for everything everyone has done for us at the VTH, and it's so great to see all my classmates. I just want to say thank you," said Melissa Sandate.
Using a manufacturing platform developed to prevent the transmission of disease during blood transfusions, IDRC staffers are working with the faculty of several departments at CSU to test an internally developed vaccine candidate dubbed SolaVAX.
A Colorado State University veterinary pathologist, Dr. Amy MacNeill, and her team are using the vaccinia virus to make a vaccine that might protect against coronavirus.
Faculty and staff gathered to send off recent graduates of CSU's Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program Monday. The grads had a message of their own.
CSU will also partner with the Dumb Friends League at Vida to offer a donor-subsidized clinic for companion animals while providing hands-on education for veterinary students.
The Vida building will showcase CSU’s veterinary program, considered among the best in the country. It will house an animal clinic run by the Denver Dumb Friends League and offering low-cost services and opportunities to CSU students for hands-on learning.
"I am very excited to move this field forward and to utilize metabolism as a way to choke virus replication in both the human host and mosquito vector." -Rushika Perera