Germ Theory: A veterinarian and bovine tuberculosis
CSU Magazine: Dr. George Glover initiated infectious disease research, a premier enterprise at the college that became Colorado State University.
CSU Magazine: Dr. George Glover initiated infectious disease research, a premier enterprise at the college that became Colorado State University.
CSU has decades of experience addressing community health needs through infectious disease research and response, in our College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, in the One Health Institute, and in our Infectious Disease Research Center. -President Joyce McConnell in CSU Magazine
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."
"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.
Dr. Amy MacNeill and her team are using the vaccinia virus – used as the very first vaccine, for smallpox – to make a vaccine that would protect against coronavirus.
“I think the very clear message — and this isn’t specific to nursing homes — there are a lot of people out there who are infected or infectious and don’t know it,” said Greg Ebel, the CSU professor whose lab ran the tests.
The hospital is open, providing care to large and small animal patients for emergencies, critical follow-up appointments, and pharmacy orders.