Chris Chase

DVM, MS, PhD, DACVM (Immunology), DACVM (Virology)

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ccchase@illinois.edu

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Chris Chase is an emeritus professor of veterinary and biomedical science at South Dakota State University. He did his pre-veterinary medicine at SDSU. He received his DVM from Iowa State University and MS and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has been at SDSU since 1992.

He was involved in clinical practice and consulting for over 30 years. He continues to teach in the Professional Program for Veterinary Medicine at SDSU and an online course at the University of Illinois. His research interests are in bovine and porcine immunology, respiratory disease pathogenesis, emerging diseases with wildlife interface, and vaccine development.

Dr. Chase is the past president of the American College of Veterinary Microbiology, the Conference of Research Workers in Animal Disease, the American Association of Veterinary Immunologists, and the South Dakota Veterinary Medical Association, and past chair of the AVMA Council on Biologics and Therapeutic Agents and the AVMA Council on Research. Dr. Chase co-founded RTI (Research, Technology Innovation) LLC, an animal health contract research organization, in 1994, which conducts poultry, swine, and cattle studies. RTI was acquired by Clinvet in 2022, and he is the Infectious Disease and Vaccine Subject Expert for the Clinvet Group.

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