The Washington Life Science Discovery Fund recently announced the awards for the latest round of competition.  I'm very proud to say that one of the projects funded was the Washington Vaccine Alliance that includes a significant contribution from faculty from our college's School for Global Animal Health and Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology.

This significant award will enable Guy Palmer and his collaborating CVM researchers to conduct research leading toward an effective vaccine for the bacterium E. coli and other bacteria that inhabit the gastrointestinal tract of livestock.  Success will mean reduced shedding of these disease-causing bacteria and thus a safer food supply.

More details of this award can be found in this news release at the Life Science Discovery Fund Authority site:

http://www.lifesciencesdiscoveryfund.org/grants/09/health_research_grants.pdf

Congratulations to Guy, Wendy, Tom, Terry, Kevin, and the rest of the Washington Vaccine Alliance team.

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One of the neat things about being at a university is that you get to be around a lot of really interesting people and their fantastic research and scholarship.  It is notable that WSU faculty have had several recent successes with the Life Science Discovery Fund over the past two years.  These include:

The CVM's own Dave Rector (from the VCAPP Department and the Neuroscience Program) is a collaborator on a project awarded to the University of Washington:

 Brain-computer Interfaces for Functional Recovery From Brain Injury 

John Roll from the WSU's College of Nursing

 Program of Excellence in Rural Mental Health and Drug Abuse

Neil Ivory from the School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering

 Rapid Fingerprinting of Cardiac Biomarkers

Dianne Cook from WSU's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, with collaboration from the Department of Psychology

Smart Home-based Health Platform for Functional Monitoring and Intervention

Cliff Berkman from WSU's Chemistry Department

Chemoaffinity Agents for the Detection of Prostate Cancer