PVM Graduate Student Wins Comparative Pathology Scholarship Award

Congratulations to ADDL’s pathology resident Abby Durkes (PU DVM ‘08), who was named as Purdue University’s recipient of the 2013 Student Scholarship Award given by the CL Davis Foundation for the Advancement of Veterinary and Comparative Pathology. The annual award recognizes one pathology resident or graduate student at each of the approximately 20 North American veterinary pathology training programs. Dr. Durkes was selected by the veterinary pathologists in Comparative Pathobiology to be Purdue’s recipient. The award was given at the CL Davis Foundation Awards Reception at the annual meeting of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP) November 18 in Montreal, Canada.

PVM Graduate Student Wins ICPI Trainee Travel Award

ADDL pathology resident Virginia Charney (TAMU DVM ‘09) received a Trainee Travel Award from the Intersociety Council for Pathology Information to attend the annual meeting of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP) November 16-20. Awardees were selected on the basis of their submitted abstracts and CVs. Dr. Charney’s poster, entitled, “Characterization of Bone Metastases from Canine Transitional Cell Carcinoma”, was co-authored by Drs. Debbie Knapp, Hock Gan Heng, and Peg Miller.

PVM Graduate Students Win Young Investigator Awards

Congratulations are in order for ADDL’s pathology residents Jessica Beck (UGA DVM ‘13, photo center), NIH Graduate Partnerships Program Fellow, and Meaghan Broman (Wisc DVM ‘10, photo right), who received second and third place Young Investigator Awards in the Diagnostic Pathology category at the annual meeting of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP) in November. Awardees were selected by a team of judges on the basis of their poster presentations. Dr. Beck’s poster, entitled, “Multifocal idiopathic nodular bone formation in the dermis and subcutis of a cynomolgus macaque (Macaca fascicularis)” was based on a study at the Mannheimer Foundation in Homestead, Fla., and co-authored by Drs. J.F. Lane, R.C. Smedley, S.M. Howell, P.R. Morales, and J.L. Wagner. Dr. Broman’s poster, entitled, “Small intestinal muscularis thickening in dogs: correlation of histologic and ultrasonographic findings”, was co-authored by PVM veterinarians Peg Miller, Jeff Ruth, and Hock Gan Heng.