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CVM Researcher Awarded Grant for Innovative Disease Work

Casey Theriot

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 –…
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Sep 30, 2024

September 2024 Accolades

Our students, faculty and staff at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine are problem-solvers, innovators and life-changers providing world-class care and making ground-breaking discoveries every day that advance animal and human health.

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Jul 16, 2024

The Human Connection

At the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, we conduct research that leads to healing across the animal-human bond. ‘Bench to bedside’ takes a unique form on our campus, where advancements bridging veterinary research and human health care can span ‘barn to bedside’ or ‘farm to table.’

Lactobacillus gasseri electron microscopy.

Feb 9, 2021

Study: Lactobacillus Manipulates Bile Acids to Create Favorable Gut Environment

These findings further elucidate the complicated relationship between bile acids and gut bacteria and could eventually enable researchers to design lactobacilli with therapeutic properties.
C. diff

Jan 21, 2021

Study: Inflamed Environment is C. diff Paradise

New CVM-led research shows that the inflammation caused by Clostridioides difficile infection gives the pathogen a two-fold advantage.
Mouse epthelium

Apr 1, 2020

Drug Used to Treat Liver Disease Also Affects C. diff Life Cycle, Reduces Inflammation in Mice

The findings aid understanding of how the drug UDCA may be used in future treatment of C. diff infections in humans.
NC State CVM Building

Mar 11, 2020

Study Shows CRISPR Effectiveness Against Colitis Pathogen

The study shows the system can be used to effectively target and eliminate the pathogen that causes the chronic, degenerative disease of the colon.
theriot

Mar 2, 2020

Theriot, Lanzas named University Faculty Scholars

The scholars program recognizes faculty for significant academic achievements and contributions to NC State.
Man in lab coat standing in research lab

Jul 7, 2019

CVM Researcher Awarded Grant for Innovative Disease Work

Matthew Foley has a singular focus: harnessing the body’s own power to fight off the devastating bacterium Clostridioides difficile. Now he’s getting invaluable help to reach his goal.   Foley, a postdoctoral fellow at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, has received a prestigious National Institutes of Health T32 Training Grant to continue his promising…