Comparative Pathobiology Department
The Comparative Pathobiology (CPB) Department in the School of Veterinary Medicine is primarily concerned with understanding the cause and pathogenesis of diseases of animals and the physical psychological relationships between animals and people. Our goal is to apply this knowledge to increase food-animal productivity and to improve the health and well being of animals and humans. Disease diagnosis, prevention, and control are emphasized rather than treatment. Veterinary Pathobiology is currently organized into three sections: anatomic and clinical pathology, microbiology/immunology/public health, and clinical epidemiology.

Department of Basic Medical Sciences
The Department of Basic Medical Sciences encompasses molecular to whole animal approaches and generally emphasizes molecular processes in development as applied to growth, differentiation, regeneration, and oncogenesis. Model systems are employed to investigate both animal and human disease, as well as biomedical engineering. Current research programs involve: signal transduction in development and oncogenesis, cell adhesion molecules in development and oncogenesis; growth factors in musculoskeletal development; ovarian follicle development; neural regeneration; implantable therapeutic or diagnostic devices, and application of computers in veterinary and medical education. Research facilities and equipment are excellent and include: state-of-the-art cell culture, electron and confocal microscopy, flow cytometry, microspectrofluorometry, image analysis, patch-clamp station, and HPLC systems, as well as a highly integrated computer network.

Veterinary Clinical Sciences
The mission of the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences is to educate the 'veterinary team', i.e. veterinarians, veterinary technicians/technologists, clinical specialists, clinical investigators and clinical educators; to generate and disseminate new knowledge and apply basic and comparative biomedical sciences to clinical veterinary medicine; and to complete these missions whilst staffing a referral hospital 'VTH' that supports a primary, secondary and tertiary case load.

Veterinary Teaching Hospital
The Teaching Hospital provides the highest quality veterinary care and education. Animal care is provided through a small animal hospital, a large animal hospital, and supporting laboratories and services. And the hospital is staffed by veterinarians who are board certified in various specialty areas. Please refer to this site for information on it's services, staff, visit information, directions and maps to our hospital or general background information.