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Center for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Diseases (CMMID)
--A Research Center for Animal Models for Diseases –
The central theme of CMMID is “Animal Model of Diseases”. Our faculty specialize in using various animal models that include not only traditional laboratory animal models (mice and rats), but also non-traditional (chickens, pigs, dogs, fish, crab, equine) animal models.
Mission Statement
Our mission is to employ animal models to better understand the disease processes that impact both humans and domesticated species. A sound basic understanding of pathogens will enable us to better design newer intervention strategies, such as genetically altered vaccines and immunomodulators.
What We Do As A Center
This center is geared toward addressing current problems in public health that require the use of appropriate
animal and tissue culture models, as well as gene-expression analysis.
Answers to today’s medical problems in both veterinary and human medicine require cutting-edge biomedical approaches. Faculty members, staff, and graduate students are using these cutting-edge methods to:
- better understand infectious diseases
- develop improved vaccines for bacterial, viral, and parasitic diseases
- understand the molecular events leading to immunological diseases
- answer basic and applied problems in biomedicine
Animal Models of Diseases
The following are various animal models of diseases that our research faculty is currently focusing:
- Animal Models of Hormone Induced Pro-inflammatory Cytokine Signaling.
(Dr. Ansar Ahmed) - Animal Models of Brucellosis. (Dr. Stephen Boyle)
- Animal Models of Molecular and Clinical Bacteriology. (Dr. Thomas Inzana)
- Animal Models of Parasitic Diseases. (Dr. David Lindsay)
- Animal Models of Viral Diseases. (Dr. Xiang-Jin Meng)
- Animal Models of Polymicrobial Diseases and Viral Vaccine Development. (Dr. Christopher Roberts)
- Animal Models of Viral Diseases. (Dr. Elankumaran Subbiah)
- Animal Models (gnotobiotic pig) of Rotavirus and Norovirus Infection and Dual Virus/Bacterial Infections. (Dr. Lijuan Yuan)
- Avian Models / Bio-security/Infection Control. (Dr. Bill Pierson)
- Aquatic Models of Diseases. (Dr. Stephen Smith)
- Animal Models of Intracellular Pathogens. (Dr. Nammalwar Sriranganathan)
- Animal Models of Hepatitis Pathology. (Dr. Tanya LeRoith)
- Animal Models of Intracellular Protozoal and Bacterial Pathogens. (Dr. Sharon Witonsky)
The CMMID also houses faculty members from the Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine (EVVCOM) whose primary focus is on animal models of human diseases.
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