A team of University of Minnesota researchers developing a faster diagnostic reached a key milestone this winter — analyzing tissue samples from CWD-positive white-tailed deer and obtaining confirmation of protein-misfolding within just nine hours.
In the next three decades, the global food supply will need to feed an additional 3 billion people. Jennifer van de Ligt, PhD spent over 15 years working with the food industry before joining the University of Minnesota as Director of the Integrated Food Systems Leadership program (IFSL), making her uniquely suited to align academic research on food issues with real-world applications.
Yankee — a unique doberman-corgi mix — has become something of an icon at the CVM’s Clinical Investigation Center (CIC), where his “mom” Sara Pracht is a lead research study technician specialist. She’s worked at the CIC since 2006.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine are expanding immunotherapy to better seek and destroy tumor cells — in both dogs and humans.
