SRRC News - College of Veterinary Medicine

McCurdy Receives Research Award

By webmaster - 6/22/2012 Victoria Jones McCurdy, Postdoctoral Fellow - Graduate Student Thesis/Dissertation Research Award, May 2012

Tatiana Samoylova Receives Coveted Michelson Grant from Found Animals Foundation

By webmaster - 5/1/2012 Tatiana Samoylova Receives Coveted Michelson Grant from Found Animals FoundationTatiana Samoylova, an associate research professor at the Scott-Ritchey Research Center at the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine, has received a two-year, $412,106 Michelson Grant from the Found Animals Foundation.

2012 Faculty Awards

By webmaster - 5/1/2012 This year, for the first time, the Hoerlein research award is given to a team. Nancy Cox and Henry Baker of the Scott-Ritchey Research Center are co-recipients of the B.F. Hoerlein Memorial Endowed Faculty Research Award for innovative and important research and discovery.

Auburn University and Vaxin Receive $1 Million Grant

By webmaster - 5/1/2012 Vaxin Inc., a clinical stage vaccine development company, and the Scott-Ritchey Research Center at the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine announce a $1 million Michelson Grant award from the Found Animals Foundation to continue development of a vaccine that may provide an alternative to surgical spay and neuter for cats and dogs.

Student Awards

By webmaster - 5/1/2012 M. Daniel Jandrlich, Merial Scholar – Scott-Ritchey Research Center Research Award for 2011-12 Award (Dr. Aime Johnson, co-mentor)

2010 Faculty Awards - Douglas Martin

By webmaster - 5/1/2012 Dr. Doug Martin is the first recipient of the B.F. Hoerlein Memorial Endowed Faculty Research Award. A leader in the field of comparative neuropathology and molecular medicine, Dr. Martin's work focuses on feline gangliosidosis, an inherited neurologic disease, as an animal model for Tay-Sachs disease of humans. Using the feline model, Dr. Martin and his colleagues at the Scott-Ritchey Research Center have produced convincing evidence of the efficacy of gene therapy against GM2 gangliosidosis. An alumnus of Auburn University, Dr. Martin earned his Ph.D. in biomedical sciences in 1999. Following postdoctoral training in the Scott-Ritchey Research Center, he was appointed Assistant Research Professor in 2004. He joined the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Pharmacology as an Associate Professor in 2009. He holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Pathobiology. The family and friends of the late Dr. Benjamin F. Hoerlein, a College of Veterinary Medicine faculty member and first director of the Scott-Ritchey Research Center, established the Hoerlein Award. Its purpose is to recognize outstanding, innovative, and important research and discovery performed at the college.

AURIC appointment

By daltoka - 3/15/2012 Effective January 1, 2012, Dr. Bruce F. Smith has been appointed director of the Auburn University Research Initiative in Cancer (AURIC). AURIC is a new program, supported in part by $1 million in funding from the state of Alabama, and focused on enhancing cancer research at Auburn University.

SRRC Scientists Inducted into Phi Zeta

By woffojl - 1/26/2010 Scott-Ritchey Research Center scientists Drs. Douglas Martin and Frederik Van Ginkel were inducted into the Epsilon Chapter of the Phi Zeta Veterinary Honor Society as honorary members at the annual Phi Zeta awards banquet, November 11, 2009. Both were recognized for their contributions to research at the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Kabir Awarded "Best Graduate Student Poster"

By woffojl - 1/26/2010 Farruk ML Kabir, a first year Ph.D. student in the Cell and Molecular Biosciences Program was awarded "Best Graduate Student Poster" at the College of Veterinary Medicine's annual Phi Zeta Research Day, November 11, 2009. Mr. Kabir's poster, entitled "Induction of cell surface integrins in lymphomas and potential applications to gene therapy", described his work with Scott-Ritchey scientists Drs. Ann Marie O'Neill and Bruce Smith. This work has identified the mechanism of lymphoma resistance to adenoviral gene therapy and may result in new approaches to treating this common dog tumor.

Martin Awarded Grant To Study Feline GM1 Gangliosidoses

By woffojl - 1/26/2010 Dr. Douglas Martin has been awarded a grant by the Lysosomal Storage Disease Research Consortium to study the therapy and role of unfolded protein response in feline GM1 gangliosidoses.

Grants Awarded By SRRC

By woffojl - 1/26/2010 March 3, 2008 - Six Interdepartmental Grants have been awarded by Scott-Ritchey.

Cox Awarded Grant From Agricultural Experiment Station

By woffojl - 1/26/2010 Dr. Nancy Cox has been awarded a grant from the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station to study species-specific vaccines for contraception of feral swine.

Samoylova Awarded Grant To Study Feral Swine Vaccines

By woffojl - 1/26/2010 Dr. Tatiana Samoylova is the recipient of a grant from Animal Health and Disease Research to study the development of species-specific vaccines for contraception of feral swine.

Smith Awarded Grant to Study Muscular Dystrophy

By woffojl - 1/26/2010 Dr. Bruce Smith, in collaboration with Dr. D. Duan of the University of Missouri, has recently been awarded grants from the Muscular Dystrophy Association and the National Institutes of Health to develop adeno-associated viral vectors for gene therapy of muscular dystrophy.

Professors Promoted

By woffojl - 1/26/2010 Congratulations to Dr. Bruce Smith, who has been promoted to professor, and Dr. Frederik Van Ginkel, promoted to associate professor with tenure.