And the 👉🏽 most prestigious teaching award 👈🏽 in the entire UNC System goes to Dr. Katie Sheats! 🎉 The professor of equine care and associate dean and director of professional education|admissions won the 2026 NC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/katie-sheats...

👏🏿👏🏽👏🏻 to Dr. Duncan Lascelles, 2026 AAVMC Excellence in Research Award winner for his 🚀 work in advancing our understanding of underlying neurobiology of pain and in developing methods to measure it and control it in companion animals. 🐈 🐩 #painresearch #innovator news.cvm.ncsu.edu/for-revoluti...

For #felinehealth research, "This gift will change everything." Cat lover Amos Cader created the Vladimir Cader Feline Health Research Distinguished Chair at @ncstate.bsky.social to 🚀 research into 🐈 cardiac diseases. Dr. Joshua Stern is the inaugural recipient. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/nc-state-ann...

Dr. Autumn Harris has dedicated her career to researching chronic kidney disease in companion animals. With funding from the AKC Canine Health Foundation, her most recent study identified a marker in urine that could lead to ‼️catching the disease earlier ‼️ #CKD www.cbs17.com/news/local-n...

More than 600 veterinary students from across the country were in Raleigh over the weekend for the annual SAVMA Symposium. The Howl of Fame Opening Gala at the Raleigh Convention Center hit the right note! 🎉 Congrats to our SAVMA chapter for hosting such an outstanding national event! #Thinkanddo

Our excellence is showing! Two NC State Faculty Scholars, a new National Academy of Inventors Senior Member and the 2026 Outstanding Swine Academic of the Year are just a few of us leading the way in providing world-class care and making ground-breaking discoveries. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/latest-accol...

The USDA awarded ^ $2 million in grants to #NCStateVetMed as part of its avian-flu-fighting initiative. The two projects show how important partnerships inside and outside @ncstate.bsky.social lead to unique scientific collaborations, progress on global problems. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/usda-awards-...

People with chronic itching from atopic dermatitis are 👉 7X more likely 👈 to develop a major depressive disorder. ? is: Are the symptoms due to stress of living with chronic illness or is the disease changing the brain itself? 🧠 Dr. Santosh Mishra has an opinion: news.cvm.ncsu.edu/the-itch-to-...

We made day-after #MatchDay memories today with our fourth-year students and house officers who are headed to new places this fall! 🎉🎈🩺 They have put in countless hours of hard work to make it to this next step, and we're so happy to be able to say congratulations! #ThinkAndDo #PackProud

👏🏼 👏🏾 👏🏿 The National Academy of Inventors has selected Dr. Michael B. Sano, associate professor in Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, as a Class of 2026 Senior Member! Sano is a pioneer in using pulses of electricity to target inoperable or metastatic cancer tumors. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/cancer-resea...

Alex endured a feline arterial thromboembolism #FATE - a blood clot that travels to the rear legs, causing extreme pain and hind limb paralysis. On the verge of needing euthanasia, Alex responded to his expert care. Now he contributes to our research about FATE. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/a-beloved-ca...

Our #veterinarystudents recently shared their time and talents during a "See A Vet, Be A Vet" event at Marbles Kids Museum. They helped children with bandaging 🧸 stuffed animals, identifying X-rays 🩻 and practicing newfound knowledge on volunteer therapy dogs! 🦮 Community partnerships are ❤️

❤️ When Jackie Jalosynski was reluctant to treat her anxious dog's allergies with 💉 Dr. Ina Herrmann offered a transdermal immunotherapy she had never used before - one of many reasons Jalosynski and her husband honored Herrmann for her care of their dog Hudson. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/dog-loving-c...

❤️ this story about Mocha's 16-day bout with botulism and the expert care she received here. Owner Emily Haas: “NC State was super on it. We talk about miracles like there’s some mystical thing. Miracles can also be having the right people who understand science.” www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...

Botulism can be such a dire diagnosis that neither Dr. Erin Pearson nor Dr. Elizabeth Treece had treated an animal that survived it. Until Mocha. 🐴 The much-loved miniature horse recently emerged from 16 days of expert care. The odds were, at best, 50-50. Story: news.cvm.ncsu.edu/under-nc-sta...

Colic strikes fear in the heart of horse lovers and challenges veterinarians because it has no definitive cause. Our Dr. Liara Gonzalez, a worldwide expert in colic research, recently spoke with Platinum Performance magazine about the latest information: www.platinumperformance.com/articles/col...

Every day is #worldcancerday at #NCStateVetMed. Here, experts generate research ideas that are tested, refined, studied in clinical trials and then offered as life-changing therapeutics to clients at the NC State Veterinary Hospital — all in one place. Overview: news.cvm.ncsu.edu/the-future-o...

Dr. Michael Rahe researches vaccines to curb costly disease outbreaks among livestock, particularly swine. In NC, the hog industry generates $11 B in economic output each year and 46,000 jobs. 🏆Now a Goodnight Early Career Innovator Award goes to ... Dr. Rahe! news.cvm.ncsu.edu/cvm-research...

We are now offering the ‼️ first-of-its-kind ‼️Certificate in Geriatric Medicine to our veterinary students after creating a Center for Healthy Aging in Companion Animals led by renowned veterinary neurologist Natasha Olby as well. Get the details! #geriatrics news.cvm.ncsu.edu/a-first-nc-s...

ICYMI. Fiona, a sport horse, had to be euthanized after developing laminitis in the wake of steroid treatments for joint pain. Dr. Kimberly Hallowell and Dr. Lauren Schnabel wondered what else could have been done. Their research could upend how steroids are used. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/how-one-hors...

#NCStateVetMed researchers have found a novel kirkovirus possibly associated with #colitis in horses. Ph.D. student Lilly Haywood is first author. Dr. Breanna Sheahan, assistant professor of equine medicine, is corresponding author. Get the details: news.cvm.ncsu.edu/novel-kirkov...

ICYMI 🐈 Our No. 1 Story #2025 🐈‍⬛ Research led by Dr. Joshua Stern, associate dean, found that a form of the drug rapamycin could reverse the underlying pathology of feline #HCM. Veterinarians previously had no drug to help cats fight the devastating disease. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/studies-led-...

ICYMI🔬 Once a C diff infection takes hold in the gut, the bacteria is challenging to dislodge. ^ antibiotics often just mean ^ destruction of good bacteria. Dr. Casey Theriot + colleagues looked for non-antimicrobials to keep C. diff from recurring and found help. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/how-a-better...

Year in Review: #2025 Discovered first drug to treat hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in cats. Awarded a $5.5 million NIH grant to contribute to the nationwide opioid addiction fight. Alerted cat owners on the dangers of cats overdosing on canine allergy medicine. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/year-in-revi...

Big news about Canine Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome! In August, Dr. Natasha Olby convened 12 experts from across the world to craft diagnostic criteria for the syndrome — analogous to early #Alzheimers disease in humans. JAVMA has OK'd printing the guidelines. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/olby-leads-s...

Our students, faculty and staff provided world-class care and make ground-breaking discoveries every day. Over the past month, we have counted the AAEP equine researcher of the year and a Young Investigator Grant among our honors. More excellence here: news.cvm.ncsu.edu/latest-accol...

👏 👍🏽 👉🏿 The Foundation for The Horse has awarded Dr. Kimberly Hallowell, a Ph.D. student in our Comparative Biomedical Sciences Program, a Young Investigator Grant to support her research into the connections among steroid treatments, insulin increase and laminitis. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/nc-state-equ...

When a woman named Angel says that the beautiful Christmas sweater she is wearing belonged to her late mother, questions arise. “She was fancy, and she had all of these Christmas sweaters. I just wear them at the holidays to keep her memory alive.” How many sweaters? 12 youtube.com/shorts/DCcKf...

Once a C. diff infection takes hold in the gut, the bacteria is challenging to dislodge. More antibiotics often mean more destruction of good bacteria, too. NC State microbiologist Casey Theriot and her colleagues have found a synthetic bile acid that could help. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/how-a-better...

C. diff infection is challenging and often returns after treatment. With the help of Dr. Casey Theriot’s mouse model of the infection, scientists around the world are learning to fight it. They often seek out the @ncstate.bsky.social microbiologist for help. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/a-mouse-mode...

Dr. Liara Gonzalez, professor of gastroenterology and equine surgery, has won ▶️ the 2025 American Association of Equine Practitioners Research Award ◀️ for her innovative work with intestinal stem cells to advance the understanding and treatment of equine colic. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/nc-state-equ...

Geneva Benson, a first-generation and first-year vet student, is also a Goodnight Scholar, graduating a year early from her undergraduate animal science degree program and using her last year of Goodnight funding for vet school. Read about her journey here: news.giving.ncsu.edu/2025/12/gene...

Fiona, a sport horse, had to be euthanized after developing laminitis in the wake of steroid treatments. Dr. Kimberly Hallowell and Dr. Lauren Schnabel wondered why, formed a research team and found answers that could upend how steroids are used in horses. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/how-one-hors...

We are thankful ❤️ for donors like Ginny Caton Johnson, who spent decades riding in competitions and bringing her horses to NC State for care. When Johnson died last year, she left an estate gift to NC State, and her sister visited recently to present a check. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/she-was-just...

🦃 Turkeys are front and center in November, and our researchers work to keep them healthy. Dr. Ravi Kulkarni has developed an injectable vaccine for a deadly poultry disease and is working on oral vaccines using probiotics. The foundation of his work is patented. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/talking-turk...

Our Turtle Rescue Team had a Problem. A snake named Problem, that is, that had become so entangled in netting that a portion of his tissue died. Dr. Savannah Dunn, Class of 2024, wondered how often the team treated entangled snakes and compiled 25 years of info. news.ncsu.edu/2025/11/a-pr...

Overuse of antibiotics has led to antimicrobial resistance, curtailing our arsenal of bug-fighting medicines and leaving us vulnerable to infections. During #AntibioticAwarenessWeek, it's important to understand what antibiotics are and how to use them appropriately news.cvm.ncsu.edu/targeting-an...

A new study — with Dr. Michael Rahe as corresponding author — shows that the response of T cells rather than the production of antibodies is what makes current vaccines against porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus effective. news.ncsu.edu/2025/11/prrs...

Dr. Lydia Love exemplifies how we lead the veterinary field in prioritizing patient safety by becoming a Certified Professional in Patient Safety, the first DVM recipient in the US. She is also the new director of patient safety at the NC State Veterinary Hospital. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/lydia-love-f...

On #VeteransDay, we salute our students who served in uniform before putting on scrubs. First-year @ncstate.bsky.social DVM students Olivia Di Ruzza and Joe Hampton will remember friends still serving and reflect on military moments shaping their veterinary careers. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/on-veterans-...

Big news on the cancer front! Dr. Chris Mariani has adapted a laser therapy used in humans with brain cancer for use in dogs. His work gives pets a new option and creates the first naturally occurring research model for studying how to improve the LITT technology. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/nc-state-neu...

Fighting cancer is a core focus for us — and so is building community. This week, we hosted an inaugural event to give our client families and the NC team members who treated their beloved pets a chance to reconnect and remember together the bond they share. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/a-night-to-r...

Tricks for a safe Halloween for pet owners: Cute costumes and candy caches are the cat’s meow for human ghouls on Halloween, but pet owners should take care when trying to include animals in the fun. Our tips: ncst.at/YfCq50XjV8O

#NCStateVetMed is joining the opioid fight! Dr. Margaret Gruen has won a $5.5 million grant from the NIH HEAL Initiative to find ways to measure how chronic pain affects how dogs think and behave. Knowing biopsychosocial effects is important in designing treatment. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/nc-state-beh...

Veterinary colleges face a shortage of educators needed to train future DVMs and advance critical research. Our Veterinary Academic Leadership Program recently added 15 new fellows, increasing the number we're preparing for careers in academia to nearly 40! news.cvm.ncsu.edu/nc-state-ann...

When aging pug WALL-E faced immobility, the Sports Medicine and Rehab and Omega teams at #NCStateVetMed used specialized techniques like sensory input, Kinesiology tape and a custom cart to restore his quality of life. Read more about this innovative, patient-centered care: go.ncsu.edu/walle-pug

Third-year NC State vet student Joe Richardson is the son and grandson of trail-blazing doctors who spent decades serving rural Hertford County, NC. He is planning to care for people, too — by caring for their animals. The question is, which ones? #ruralveterinarian #ncpol ncst.at/SyYq50WZnYu

Third-year student Azariah Spurlock, a WV native, created an interactive coloring book to help children with limited opportunities see that anyone can be a veterinarian — and not just for puppies and kittens. Read her story: news.cvm.ncsu.edu/nc-state-stu...

ICYMI: Research in the Stern Lab has found a genetic mutation associated with #HCM and sudden death in golden retrievers. The work also could shape our understanding of the disease in humans. Dr. Victor Rivas was lead author on the resulting paper. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/researchers-...

Researchers led by Dr. Victor Rivas, DVM student and Ph.D. graduate at #NCStateVetMed, have discovered the first genetic mutation associated with #HCM and sudden death in golden retrievers. The work could further shape our understanding of the disease in humans. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/researchers-...