Grant for US laminitis researcher

Michelle Coleman in addition to Allen Page were presented alongside the $5000 fellows at the AAEP convention before this month. L-R: Dr Richard Mitchell, Equus Foundation Board member, Dr Allen E. Page, Dr Wayne McIlwraith, AAEP Foundation Chairman, Dr Michelle C. Coleman, in addition to Dr John Mitchell, 2012 AAEP President.

Equine laminitis researcher Michelle C. Coleman has received a grant from the Equus Foundation to assistance inward her work.

The Texas A&M University main of scientific discipline candidate received a $5000 fellow.  University of Kentucky Gluck Equine Research Center doctoral candidate Allen E. Page, who is researching immunological reply of horses to Lawsonia intracellularis, also received $5000.

Supported inward partnership past times the AAEP Foundation in addition to The Equus Foundation, the $5000 fellows emphasize the importance of assisting equine researchers inward their exploration of Equus caballus wellness aid topics. In addition, each beau winner received a $500 go stipend to back upwardly their go to Anaheim. The initiative Equus Foundation Research Fellows were awarded final year.

Dr Coleman, DVM, DACVIM, is working toward a graduate flat inward biomedical sciences alongside an emphasis on epidemiology. She is the written report coordinator for the AAEP Foundation’s Case-Control Study of Pasture in addition to Endocrinopathy-Associated Laminitis inward horses, currently nether agency at Texas A&M University.

The short-term objective of the written report is to position lead a opportunity factors for the evolution of incident cases of laminitis amidst Equus caballus that naturally prepare pasture – or endocrinopathy – associated laminitis. It is hoped that results of this projection volition guide the long-term objective of developing strategies for command in addition to prevention of this cast of the disease.

Dr Coleman received a bachelor’s of scientific discipline flat inward 2003 from the University of Rochester (NY) in addition to her veterinarian flat inward 2007 from the University of Georgia.

Dr Page’s doctoral interrogation is focused on the immunological reply of horses to Lawsonia intracellularis; inward particular, he is investigating why exclusively a small-scale proportion of L. intracellularis-exposed weanlings prepare clinical signs of equine proliferative enteropathy (EPE) piece the vast bulk neglect to present whatever sick effects of exposure. One of the close pressing issues he is investigating alongside respects to L. intracellularis and EPE concerns how the bacterium is transmitted in addition to where the reservoir exists on a farm.

EPE is a illness of foals caused past times the obligate intracellular organism L. intracellularis. This emerging illness causes fever, lethargy, peripheral oedema, diarrhea, colic in addition to weight loss.

Dr Page, DVM, received his bachelor’s flat inward 2004 in addition to his veterinarian flat inward 2008 from the University of California, Davis. He likewise is a Morris Animal Foundation/Pfizer Animal Health Fellow.

 

 

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