Megan Jacob

May 10, 2021

Heartfelt and Celebratory: The 37th Annual CVM Awards

The awards honor students and faculty for outstanding academic, clinical and research achievements.

Apr 15, 2021

World Health Organization Launches Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Program Co-Developed at NC State

The CVM helped lead the protocol development as part of its role as a designated WHO collaborating center to combat AMR. The college is one of 18 centers worldwide focused on AMR. 

Mar 4, 2021

NC State Announces In-House COVID-19 Testing Labs at Veterinary Medicine Campus

The university will handle all COVID-19 testing in-house in two newly refurbished lab spaces located at the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Mar 4, 2021

NC State Veterinary Medicine’s Megan Jacob is Helping Lead the Pack Out of the Pandemic

The microbiologist's new in-house lab at the CVM is surveilling COVID-19 for the NC State campus.

Nov 9, 2020

In Malawi, NC State Extends its Global Reach in Antimicrobial Resistance Fight

The CVM is joining forces with UNC Chapel Hill in a first-of-its-kind project to halt the spread of antimicrobial resistance in Malawi.

Oct 5, 2020

Global Health: Antimicrobial Resistance Tracking Programs Awarded New Funding

The funding supports the global GenomeTrakr program and the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System at the CVM.

Jul 28, 2020

Gut Microbiome Study Could Guide New Canine Epilepsy Treatments

Neurology professor Karen Muñana is leading a new three-year study into canine epilepsy, the most common neurological condition in dogs, but one of the least understood.

Jun 10, 2020

Keelara Receives IAFP Young Investigator Award for Antimicrobial Resistance Research

The award will help Keelara advance his career in investigating antimicrobial resistance in foodborne pathogens, a pressing worldwide threat.

Dec 10, 2018

NIH-Funded Program Educates High School Teachers About Issues in Science

A collaboration with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and funded by the National Institutes of Health, the workshop included a talk at Athens High followed by a tour of the CVM...

Oct 11, 2017

To Surveil and Protect: The Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance

In the thick of war it pays to know your enemy, and bacteria is an unrelenting, captivating foe. “How does something that you can’t see, that doesn’t have a brain, develop very sophisticated survival mechanisms almost immediately?” said Paula Cray, head of the department of population health and pathobiology at the NC State College of…