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School of Veterinary Medicine
Penn Vet Announces World Leadership and Student Inspiration Awards
PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine has launched the first veterinary medicine awards of its kind designed to recognize innovation, creativity and leadership in the veterinary profession anywhere in the world.
Roy and Gretchen Jackson Endow Chair for Equine Disease Research at Penn Veterinary Medicine School
PHILADELPHIA - A $3 million gift from Roy and Gretchen Jackson, owners of Barbaro, will endow a chair in the name of Dean W. Richardson at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
In the News
The New York Times
Are we loving our pets to death?
James Serpell of the School of Veterinary Medicine says that dogs and cats are not children, and pet owners have become increasingly protective and restrictive.
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The Washington Post
Cat kidney transplants: For some, the pricey procedure is well worth it
The School of Veterinary Medicine is spotlighted as one of only three facilities in the U.S. which offer feline kidney transplants, and Lillian Aronson says that cats are a natural living model of kidney disease.
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Newsweek
Disease from parasite in U.S. water supply might finally be treatable
A paper by Katelyn A. Walzer and Boris Striepen of the School of Veterinary Medicine reveals the gene expression of the parasite cryptosporidium across its life cycle.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Fentanyl overdoses hit a surprising group of San Franciscans: the city’s dogs
Cynthia Otto of the School of Veterinary Medicine says that fentanyl can be absorbed across the mucous membranes in canine noses, causing dogs to face a life-threatening overdose.
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Nature
Bird flu virus has been spreading in U.S. cows for months, RNA reveals
Louise Moncla of the Veterinary School of Medicine says that the bird flu virus is clearly being transmitted to cows in some way.
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