Prairie Diagnostic Services gains accreditation
December 29th, 2010
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Prairie Diagnostic Services Inc. has received ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation for all of the ELISA and PCR foreign animal disease tests offered by its laboratory network. The accreditation was awarded during the 2010 annual meeting of the Canadian Animal Health Surveillance Network (CAHSN). The tests, which include avian influenza, Newcastle disease, foot and mouth disease and classical swine fever, were accredited …
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Leighton keynote speaker at wildlife meeting
Veterinary pathologist and WCVM professor Dr. Ted Leighton recently presented the Albert Franzmann Memorial Lecture/keynote address at the inaugural Trilateral Meeting of the Canadian, Mexican and United States Wildlife Veterinary and Conservation Medicine Non-Profit Organizations. Leighton’s lecture, “In praise of chloroplasts and mitochondria: some thoughts on mutualism in wildlife health management,” was sponsored by the American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians …
December 23rd, 2010 Full story »
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Yapura receives top research paper award
WCVM graduate student Jimena Yapura received “the Best Paper in Basic Science Research” award at the 56th annual meeting of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society (CFAS). Her presentation, “Effects of a three-day regimen of letrozole on ovarian function in a bovine model” was selected on-site as the best of the top 10 abstracts presented at the conference which was …
December 09th, 2010 Full story »
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WCVM student receives Aboriginal award
WCVM student Mary Leia Sowdluapik Cunningham of Nunavut was one of four students awarded a 2010 Helen Bassett Commemorative Student Award. The award is a youth-driven initiative that assists young Aboriginal women who are enrolled in post-secondary education. Cunningham is an Inuit student currently completing her final year in the WCVM’s Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program. She plans to return …
December 09th, 2010 Full story »
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Environmental scientists receive federal funds
A research team led by WCVM professor John Giesy is getting a $2 million boost in their quest to make the oilsands greener. The joint federal and provincial investment is targeted for a promising new technology being developed at the University of Saskatchewan Toxicology Centre. Giesy is a Canada Research Chair in Environmental Toxicology at the U of S and …
December 08th, 2010 Full story »
