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The University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine recently announced that it is in the process of acquiring both Middlefork Forge, a farrier practice formerly located in Collison, Ill., and the Midwest Horseshoeing School, located in Divernon, Ill. Four Farriers Join College Staff The farrier practice will begin shoeing horses as part of the College...
Every four years an elite group of scientists and clinicians from around the globe gathers to advance the field of andrology—the study of male reproduction—in the equine species. This year the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine is pleased to host the Seventh International Symposium on Stallion Reproduction. More than 100 experts in equine...
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At the University of Illinois, an engineer teamed up with a veterinarian to test a bone cancer drug delivery system in animals bigger than the standard animal model, the mouse. They chose dogs – mammals closer in size and biology to humans – with naturally occurring bone cancers, which also are a lot like human...
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Pets with Cancer Sought for Two Trials A new surgical imaging tool developed on the University of Illinois campus is being used by a veterinary surgical oncologist there to determine whether all the cancerous cells of a tumor have been removed. Two clinical trials conducted by Dr. Laura Selmic will help introduce this new approach,...
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High school students investigate Ebola-like outbreaks and administer vaccines through Outbreak!, a new summer course at Illinois that uses online games to encourage critical thinking about fighting infectious diseases. Dr. Yvette Johnson-Walker, an epidemiologist and a clinical instructor in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, leads the four-week course with her colleague Dr. Maung San...
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A complicated orthopedic surgery performed recently at the College of Veterinary Medicine received assistance from the College of Engineering at the opposite end of the University of Illinois campus. On May 5, a young bald eagle in the care of the Wildlife Medical Clinic underwent a three-hour procedure to repair its left humerus, which had...
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Clinical trials of the anti-cancer agent PAC-1 are continuing to expand, thanks to a $7 million angel investment from an anonymous contributor who originally invested $4 million to help get the compound this far in the drug-approval pipeline. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration also granted PAC-1 orphan drug status for the treatment of glioblastoma...
On January 28, 2016, a semi-trailer hauling 156 hogs crashed on I-74 east of Urbana. The University of Illinois Veterinary Teaching Hospital was called to the scene to care for the injured hogs. Dr. Eleonora Po, who is completing the third year of a residency in food animal medicine and surgery, was one of the...
Since 1966, the Silver Circle Award has been presented to some of the best teachers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Winners, who are honored at their college commencements, receive $500 and their names join a long list of distinguished colleagues. But what makes the award especially meaningful is its selection committee: the graduating...
![[Kristopher Kilian, graduate student Junmin Lee and Timothy Fan]](http://vetmed.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/news-kilian-lee-fan-260x157.jpg)
Only a few cells in a cancerous tumor are able to break away and spread to other parts of the body, but the curve along the edge of the tumor may play a large role in activating these tumor-seeding cells, according to a new University of Illinois study. Using engineered tissue environments in various shapes...