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Department Shines at 2025 CVM Phi Zeta Competition

CVM-Wide Phi Zeta Competition Highlights Departmental Excellence We are proud to share that the department was well represented at the 2025 CVM-wide Phi Zeta competition that took place on April 24th and 25th, 2025. Liz Brammer-Robbins was honored with the Excellence in Doctoral Studies Award, which recognizes outstanding scholarship by…

Advancing Pneumonia Treatment in Dogs: RESTORED Clinical Trial

Pneumonia is one of the most common causes of acute lung injury in dogs. Severe cases require hospitalization with oxygen supplementation in addition to other therapies, which generally cost $2,000-4,000. Despite advances in veterinary medicine, treatment for pneumonia is still largely supportive, including broad-spectrum antibiotics, supplemental oxygen, and fluids as…

Early-Career Anatomist Publication Awards- The Anatomical Record

Emma Schachner, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiological Sciences at the University of Florida, College of Veterinary Medicine, where she teaches anatomy to veterinary students. Her research focuses on the evolution of structural and functional diversity in the vertebrate respiratory system. Emma is honored to receive…

Dr. Pedro Trevizan-Baú wins Travel Award

Dr. Pedro Trevizan-Baú has recently been awarded the travel award at the Society for Neuroscience Conference in Chicago on Oct 5th – 9th, 2024. Dr. Leah Reznikov severed as his mentor. He also received a Gator NeuroScholar fellowship from the McKnight Brian Institute. Dr. Trevizan-Baú is also a postdoc at…

Best Poster Presentation

Dr. Helen Zomer recently attended the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAIC) annual meeting that took place on April 25-26, 2024, in Arlington, Virgina. She presented her poster on Healing Skin Wounds in Older Adults. The poster was on research that tackles chronic skin wounds, a common issue…

Phi Zeta 2024

Recently Phi Zeta 2024 occurred. Many of our students and faculty won awards. The 2nd place award for Graduate student goes to Gabbie Robilotto who is mentored by Dr. Aaron Mickel on her research on Investigating Angiotensin Type 1 Receptor in Experimental Autoimmune Cystitis. The 3rd place for Postdoc…

Aaron Mickle receives UF’s Excellence Award for Assistant Professors

Dr. Mickle, an assistant professor in the department of Physiological Sciences at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, has been awarded the 2023 University of Florida Excellence Award for Assistant Professors, a campus-wide achievement and top honor for junior faculty.   Dr. Mickle’s main research focuses on…

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