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Dec 23, 2025

Year in Review: NC State College of Veterinary Medicine 2025

From the discovery of the first drug to successfully treat hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in cats to the award of a $5.5 million NIH grant to contribute to the nationwide opioid addiction fight, 2025 has been a life-changing year for the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, its people and its community. Our leadership in the veterinary…
Dr. Natasha Olby is world-renowned for her research into aging dogs.

Dec 22, 2025

Olby Leads Successful Effort to Define Diagnostic Criteria for Dogs with Dementia 

Leading veterinary neurologist Natasha Olby took her research into Canine Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome to the next level by convening a group of 12 experts from across the world to craft diagnostic criteria for the syndrome, which is analogous to early Alzheimer’s disease in humans. This month, the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association approved…
The exterior of the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine building.

Dec 18, 2025

Latest Accolades for Our Problem-Solvers, Innovators and Life-Changers

Recognitions Grants and Awards October 2025 Recognitions Nicole Adams, a Ph.D. student working with Dr. Xinxia Peng, a professor in the Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, was invited to share her research on identifying markers to predict whether a chlamydia infection is likely to ascend into the uterus and endometrium with NC State’s Board of…
Dr. Kimberly Hallowell with short brown hair and glasses wears a white lab coat and stands in a lab.

Dec 18, 2025

NC State Equine Researcher Wins Young Investigator Grant for Steroid Studies

The Foundation for the Horse has awarded Dr. Kimberly Hallowell, a Ph.D. student in NC State’s Comparative Biomedical Sciences Program, a 2025 Young Investigator Grant to support her research into using metabolic indicators to predict which horses are at risk of developing laminitis after receiving steroid injections. Steroids are commonly and effectively used to treat…
A French bull dog sits in grass while it scratches its chin with a hind leg.

Dec 17, 2025

Study Explores Role of Neutrophils in Canine Atopic Dermatitis

A new study from North Carolina State University found that neutrophils – white blood cells that are a key part of the immune system – play a role in the early stages of atopic dermatitis flares in dogs. The work is a first step toward understanding the role that these immune cells may play in…
Dr. Casey Theriot, with short blonde hair and red glasses, wears a white lab coat and stands in a lab.

Dec 16, 2025

How a Better Bile Acid Could Keep C. diff at Bay

By Bethany Brookshire One of the worst things about a Clostridioides difficile infection is how often it comes back. Frequently, a patient will be treated with the antibiotic vancomycin, and the terrible intestinal symptoms will disappear, only to flare up when treatment ends.  A C. diff infection is more than simple diarrhea. Every year in…
Dr. Casey Theriot, in white shirt and red sweater, stands in a lab at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine.

Dec 11, 2025

A Mouse Model of C. diff at NC State is Helping Scientists Around the World Develop Better Antibiotics

By Bethany Brookshire Most people will have a bout of stomach upset during their lives. But an infection with Clostridioides difficile is both more severe and more dangerous. Ironically, the infection often strikes after someone has finished a course of antibiotics for a different infection. Antibiotics often don’t discriminate in the bacteria they kill –…
Dr. Elisa Crisci, in white lab coat, works in her lab on the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine campus.

Dec 11, 2025

When It Comes to Collaborating, NC State Virologist’s Lab Stands Out

In regards to swine research, Dr. Elisa Crisci is an omnipresent partner, working with other NC State departments, the North Carolina hog industry, the Marsico Lung Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University, a placenta organoid expert at Duke University and others in her…
Dr. Liara Gonzalez, in a black and white checked dress, stands in front of brick columns at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine.

Dec 9, 2025

NC State Equine Surgeon Wins National Research Award for Work on Colic

Dr. Liara Gonzalez, professor of gastroenterology and equine surgery at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, 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. The award was announced today at the annual AAEP convention…

Dec 4, 2025

How One Horse’s Death Led NC State on a Search that Could Upend How Steroids are Used 

Sometimes the path to breaking medical ground starts with breaking hearts. When Fiona, a young Quarter Horse used for competitive reining, developed sacroiliac joint pain, the experts at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine cared for her with corticosteroid injections into those joints, the accepted protocol. Fiona belonged to Karie Tucker, a registered veterinary…