UK’s Yosra Helmy receives Peggy Cotter Award

Yosra Helmy, PhD, assistant professor in the University of Kentucky Gluck Equine Research Center was recently awarded the prestigious Peggy Cotter Award from the American Society of Microbiology (ASM). This award is given to early career scientists within the discipline of microbiology and will cover accommodation and travel costs associated with attending the annual ASM conference.

Two Gluck researchers receive funding from Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation

Shavahn Loux, PhD, scientist, and Bruno Menarim, PhD, assistant professor, both at the University of Kentucky Gluck Equine Research Center, have been awarded grants from Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation.

Loux's research aims to develop a novel for diagnosis of nocardioform placentitis, a common cause of late-term abortion in mares.

Menarim's project aims to investigate the benefits of a new treatment, polyacrylamide, for treatment of joint disease in horses.

You can read more about their projects as well as the other awarded research projects here:

https://www.grayson-jockeyclub.org/default.asp?section=2&area=Research&menu=2&fbclid=IwAR3lqnjD8ocoR0-TzzE3UP7YSHHkuMKe2QDlg2Ct6duTfmNoqsz5IrYr-_4

UK’s Allen Page secures funding from the Foundation for the Horse

Allen Page, DVM, PhD, is an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky Gluck Equine Research Center working with inflammation and health. He was recently awarded research funding from The Foundation For The Horse, which is incorporated by the American Association for Equine Practitioners (AAEP).

Through serial evaluation of mRNA in horses diagnosed with and receiving professional rehabilitation for suspensory ligament, tendon or stifle injuries, Page’s research seeks to define patterns that may ultimately improve understanding and maximize healing responses following injury. This would modernize current return to activity guidelines for common orthopedic and soft tissue injuries in horses.

Gluck graduate student secures funding from Morris Animal Foundation

Izabela de Assis Rocha, PhD-student in Daniel Howe’s laboratory, has been awarded a research grant from Morris Animal Foundation.

The project is titled “Investigation of the Immunopathogenesis of Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis."

Rocha and collaborators will study why a small percentage of horses infected with the causative parasite Sarcocystis neurona are afflicted with a severe neurological disease called equine protozoal myeloencephalitis while other infected horses are unaffected.