Researchers see need for better warnings for Colorado residents about health impacts of long-range wildfire smoke
The research team believes there's a lack of communication about smoke from distant wildfires.
The research team believes there's a lack of communication about smoke from distant wildfires.
Early in the pandemic, a CSU team set out to quantify the dynamics of how aerosols like viruses travel from one person to another, under different circumstances.
Sometimes, symptoms of a disease are obvious – think of the mass mortality events observed in crows infected with West Nile Virus (a mosquito-borne virus that can also cause febrile illness in humans), says Angela Bosco-Lauth, a virologist and veterinarian and at Colorado State University. Often, signs are much subtler – if they are there at all.
Researchers aim to create a vaccine candidate that would protect people from a spectrum of coronaviruses.
"Bart was exactly the perfect patient," said Bart's surgeon Lisa Bartner, a faculty neurologist at the Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital. Herniated discs are very common in French bulldogs and other breeds with short legs and long backs.
Heather Pidcoke, 56, a physician, medical researcher and now a patient, was among the first to receive the locally produced `UCD19 CAR-T cells.’ Pidcoke is now back at work as chief medical research officer at Colorado State University.
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Dr. John Eisenach was inspired by a mentor to create the Colorado COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Project Consortium.
Health officials can immediately access this timely data through a dashboard created by CSU.
McGrath’s passion for and expertise in naturally occurring disease research earned her the 2020 Zoetis Award for Veterinary Research Excellence.