Fighting cancer is a core focus for us — and so is building community. This week, we hosted an inaugural event to give our client families and the NC team members who treated their beloved pets a chance to reconnect and remember together the bond they share. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/a-night-to-r...

Tricks for a safe Halloween for pet owners: Cute costumes and candy caches are the cat’s meow for human ghouls on Halloween, but pet owners should take care when trying to include animals in the fun. Our tips: ncst.at/YfCq50XjV8O

#NCStateVetMed is joining the opioid fight! Dr. Margaret Gruen has won a $5.5 million grant from the NIH HEAL Initiative to find ways to measure how chronic pain affects how dogs think and behave. Knowing biopsychosocial effects is important in designing treatment.
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Veterinary colleges face a shortage of educators needed to train future DVMs and advance critical research. Our Veterinary Academic Leadership Program recently added 15 new fellows, increasing the number we're preparing for careers in academia to nearly 40! news.cvm.ncsu.edu/nc-state-ann...

When aging pug WALL-E faced immobility, the Sports Medicine and Rehab and Omega teams at #NCStateVetMed used specialized techniques like sensory input, Kinesiology tape and a custom cart to restore his quality of life. Read more about this innovative, patient-centered care: go.ncsu.edu/walle-pug

Third-year NC State vet student Joe Richardson is the son and grandson of trail-blazing doctors who spent decades serving rural Hertford County, NC. He is planning to care for people, too — by caring for their animals. The question is, which ones? #ruralveterinarian #ncpol
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Third-year student Azariah Spurlock, a WV native, created an interactive coloring book to help children with limited opportunities see that anyone can be a veterinarian — and not just for puppies and kittens. Read her story: news.cvm.ncsu.edu/nc-state-stu...

ICYMI: Research in the Stern Lab has found a genetic mutation associated with #HCM and sudden death in golden retrievers. The work also could shape our understanding of the disease in humans. Dr. Victor Rivas was lead author on the resulting paper. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/researchers-...

Researchers led by Dr. Victor Rivas, DVM student and Ph.D. graduate at #NCStateVetMed, have discovered the first genetic mutation associated with #HCM and sudden death in golden retrievers. The work could further shape our understanding of the disease in humans.
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Dr. Gustavao Machado is leading our first-ever dry lab (think mousepads instead of pipettes!) This initiative supports the critical work of the Rapid Access Biosecurity App, which helps authorities in 36 states track disease outbreaks among hogs, poultry and cattle.

Read more: go.ncsu.edu/dry-lab

The NC State CVM was founded on August 27, 1981, created with a promise to educate and innovate. 44 years later, the college has gone through many transformations, but our commitment to life-changing research, advanced technology, and shaping the future of veterinary medicine remains unchanged.

Happy #NationalDogDay! At #NCStateVetMed, we're dedicated to improving the lives of dogs everywhere through:

🐕 World-renowned aging research: go.ncsu.edu/cvm-aging
🩸 A life-saving canine blood donor program: go.ncsu.edu/dog-bd
🔬 Cutting-edge treatments through clinical trials: go.ncsu.edu/cvm-ct

What is a veterinarian's role in a natural disaster? The event at #NCStateVetMed offered professionals an overview of how to be prepared to be a responder, to work within the county system and to understand field medicine and euthanasia decisions, medical records and self-care.

How does a brain develop inside an embryo? NC State scientist Eric Brooks found that cells perform a complicated dance to determine eventual locations and function. Now, he and his colleagues have created a cellular atlas to study this delicate part of development.
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In a new study on stopping the spread of disease among hog farms, Dr. Gustavo Machado and his team found that creating a system to reroute vehicles carrying feed or hogs to other farms or market reduces contact between infected and uninfected farms by 42%. ncst.at/xozv50WHGTR

Megan Dillon, a graduate student and Ph.D. awardee, is capturing imaginations worldwide as she works with Dr. Matthew Breen to study the genetic makeup of stray dogs living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone for the past 30 years.

Read the story or listen to the podcast episode ➡️ go.ncsu.edu/mdillon

The 125 members of our #Classof2029 have taken the first steps to becoming doctors. They have an average age of 23 & represent 14 states, Puerto Rico and four countries — and 36 NC counties. Three days of orientation behind them, the students started class today. ❤️
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This is what veterinary scholars look like ➡️ NC State led all veterinary colleges at the #AAVMCSymposium with 42 DVM students presenting research from 🫀cardiology to conservation 🌎. Learn how our program nurtures future scientists go.ncsu.edu/cvm_studentr... #VSS2025
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Learn about the inaugural Randall B. Terry Jr. Rural Veterinary Scholars Program: jav.ma/vsp @ncstatevetmed.bsky.social

What does feline health look like at NC State?

🐱 2,000+ cases annually
🏨 4 dedicated exam rooms
💊 Novel, FDA‑CA1 drug for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
👩‍🔬 Leading the way in Feline Idiopathic Cystitis treatments

#FelineHealthCenter #InternationalCatDay
🔗 go.ncsu.edu/felinecenter

Cat owners, take note! If you have dogs prescribed chewable Apoquel for allergies, the medicine can result in acute kidney injury in felines that find the pork liver-flavored pills hard to resist. Two cats ingested harmful quantities and needed dialysis at NC State.
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🐱 Breakthrough: #NCStateVetMed researchers developed the first drug to treat feline HCM—one of the most common heart diseases in cats. It’s now FDA-conditionally approved.

Meet Dr. Josh Stern and learn more: go.ncsu.edu/cat-hcm

A blue sky, rolling fields and contented cows just 60 seconds from our classrooms— there’s no place we’d rather be!

Follow @ncstatevetmed.bsky.social to see how we’re advancing care, research and veterinary education. #NCStateVetMed