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June 24, 2024 —
The ROAR Program welcomes research proposals related to HPAI response, prevention or mitigation. Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) is spreading across the country and infecting a range of...
June 3, 2024 — AASV Staff
In 2023, the AASV Foundation granted $22,708 to Dr. Daniel Linhares and co-investigators from Iowa State University to partially fund the proposal, "Assessing the performance of tongue tips as...
April 23, 2024 —
In 2023, the AASV Foundation granted $22,440 to Dr. Daniel Linhares and coinvestigators from Iowa State University to fund the proposal, "Probability of influenza A virus RNA detection at...
April 23, 2024 — Megan Niederwerder
The Swine Health Information Center and Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) leveraged funds to develop a $1 million research program to enhance US prevention, preparedness, and...
April 9, 2024 —
The National Pork Board has published three books that summarize the information gathered from Checkoff-Funded research. General Swine Disease Research PRRSV...
April 8, 2024 —
African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) is a highly contagious, fatal disease in pigs that spreads rapidly. There is no commercially available treatment or vaccine for the virus, posing a significant threat...
March 1, 2024 —
Proposals are now being accepted for the 2024 cycle of the Growing Research and New Technology for Swine (GRANTS) program, sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim. Practicing veterinarians and producers,...
February 20, 2024 — Megan Niederwerder
The Swine Health Information Center and the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) have partnered to fund a $1 million research program to enhance US prevention, preparedness, and...
February 14, 2024 — Megan Niederwerder
The Swine Health Information Center and the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) have partnered to fund a $1 million research program to enhance US prevention, preparedness, and...
February 9, 2024 — AASV Staff
In 2020, the AASV Foundation granted $18,372 to Dr. Cesar Corzo and co-investigators from the University of Minnesota to fund the proposal, "Assessing time to negative processing fluids in...
February 7, 2024 — Megan Niederwerder
The Swine Health Information Center leveraged a collaborative partnership with the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research and Pork Checkoff to fund the 2-year $2.3 million Wean-to-Harvest...
February 2, 2024 —
In 2021, Dr Jianqiang Zhang and co-investigators from Iowa State University received $30,000 from the AASV Foundation to fund the proposal "Generation of antisera against six commercial PRRSV...
January 25, 2024 — AASV Staff
In 2020, Drs. Edison Magalhaes and co-investigators at Iowa State University were awarded $23,256 to fund the project, "Measuring the effect of diseases on the productivity of growing pigs...
January 22, 2024 —
Merck Animal Health January 15 released findings of its comprehensive Veterinary Wellbeing Study conducted in collaboration with the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA). The latest study,...
January 18, 2024 — AASV Staff
In 2018, the AASV Foundation granted $30,000 to Dr Jianqiang Zhang and co-investigators at Iowa State University to fund the project "Refining PRRSV classification system and sequencing reports...
January 17, 2024 —
Proposals are now being accepted for the 2024 cycle of the Growing Research and New Technology for Swine (GRANTS) program, sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim. Practicing veterinarians and producers,...
January 16, 2024 — AASV Staff
In 2017, the AASV Foundation granted $30,000 to Dr Jianqiang Zhang and co-investigators at Iowa State University to fund the project "Comparison of PRRSV virus isolation in different cell lines...
January 1, 2024 —
Proposals are now being accepted for the 2024 cycle of the Growing Research and New Technology for Swine (GRANTS) program, sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim. Practicing veterinarians and producers,...
December 26, 2023 — Paul Sundberg
The Swine Health Information Center has awarded research funding to five projects designed to better understand the potential use of tongue tips for monitoring emerging diseases. When announcing the...
December 20, 2023 — Paul Sundberg
Dr. Chad Paulk, Kansas State University, led a project to understand the best flushing, thermal processing, and decontamination techniques for a feed mill after exposure to PEDV, PRRSV, and SVA. In...
October 19, 2023 —
The AASV Foundation granted $30,000 to Dr Marcelo Almeida and co-investigators to fund the proposal, "Comparison of the pathological and clinical effects of an F18 enterotoxigenic Escherichia...
September 6, 2023 —
In a groundbreaking advancement, scientists have illuminated a critical gene within pigs that plays a pivotal role in the infection process of the African Swine Fever (ASF) virus. This discovery...
July 26, 2023 —
Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health announced today the 2023 award recipients for the Growing Research and New Technology for Swine (GRANTS) program. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the...
April 3, 2023 —
Practicing veterinarians and producers, as well as researchers and academics, may now apply for one of three $35,000 awards for research related to swine health and production through the Growing...
March 20, 2023 —
Practicing veterinarians and producers, as well as researchers and academics, may now apply for one of three $35,000 awards for research related to swine health and production through the Growing...
March 20, 2023 —
Veterinarians with experience in medicine, animal sciences and public health add unique perspectives to solving critical food and agriculture challenges. To support the development of future...
February 25, 2023 —
Practicing veterinarians and producers, as well as researchers and academics, may now apply for one of three $35,000 awards for research related to swine health and production through the Growing...
January 16, 2023 —
Practicing veterinarians and producers, as well as researchers and academics, may now apply for one of three $35,000 awards for research related to swine health and production through the Growing...
January 11, 2023 —
Projects include identifying neutralizing antibodies against the African swine fever virus; impact of climate in forecasting highly pathogenic avian influenza. Research Corporation for Science...
January 5, 2023 —
CDC released a new Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) funding opportunity for applied research to address emerging public health priorities. Funded research projects may include identifying and...
The complete archive, including older stories, is here
Category abbreviations: AASV=Membership information, announcements, and other information from the American Association of Swine Veterinarians; Abs.=Abstracts from journal articles of general interest to swine veterinarians.; ALERT=Used to create email alerts; An.H.=Animal Health; Conf.=Conference announcements and other continuing education opportunities; FAD="Foreign" Animal Disease and other news most significant to regions outside of North America.; Food=Food Safety; Gov.=Information about legislation, regulations, and rulemaking that may affect the swine industry or swine veterinarians.; Hum.H.=Human health; Ind.=News from the pork industry, including NPPC and Pork Board activities.; International=Information regarding swine health and production internationally.; Jobs=Position announcements, primarily seeking swine veterinarians.; Meet=Provides a short synopsis of meetings of importance to swine veterinarians.; News=Agriculture related news events.; Nutr.=Swine nutrition; OP-ED=Opinion or editorial articles expressing the thoughts of individual Association members.; Pharm.=Pharmaceuticals and biologicals; PRRS=Articles from the AASV PRRS Task Force; Practice=Information associated with practice management or development.; Research=Research topics of interest to swine veterinarians.; Students=Information of interest to AASV student members.; USDA=US Dept. of Agriculture activities of interest to swine veterinarians.; Welfare=Animal welfare issues