Summer Programs for Veterinary Students – The Department of Molecular & Comparative Pathobiology

Summer Pathology Fellowship

Taking Applications for 2026

This 8 — 12 week summer program is available to veterinary students entering their 3rd or 4th years of veterinary doctoral training. The program emphasizes diagnostic and research-related veterinary anatomic pathology, and students will also be able to work on a summer research project.

What were the most important things you learned?

“How to describe and properly write necropsy and histology reports, I gained valuable hands-on experience in necropsy, trimming and histopathology”

“I learned how to collaborate with different departments, and how to navigate creating a project”

“I learned that research is a lot of trial and error that sometimes seems overwhelming, but you can actually figure out a lot by utilizing all your resources like the literature and your colleagues”

“Veterinarians are everywhere! (a lot more places than you think). Animal research is constantly evolving, and therefore such an exciting field to be involved in! There is no “right” way to go about obtaining the career you want. Don’t limit yourself!”

“Working with microbes and how to keep a sterile environment to avoid contamination, handling smaller animals like mice in order to obtain samples, and learning what a resident’s day is like my shadowing them in either pathology or laboratory animal medicine”

“The program expanded by understanding of the roles that veterinarians can play in research, laboratory animal medicine, and pathology as a whole”

What was the impact on your career plans?

“I am more confident than ever that a career in veterinary pathology is right for me. I am planning to pursue a pathology residency”

Diagnostic Pathology

2025

Long-Latency Doxorubicin Toxicity in a Rat Model: Non-Cardiac Lesions to Consider
Histologic Analysis of FLASH and Conventional Irradiation of the Lung Tissue of Mice

2024

Histologic evaluation of tissue artifacts associated with euthanasia methods in brook trout: Study design
Histological Diagnosis of Spontaneous Tumors and their Characterization Long-Evans Rats: A Retrospective Study from 2006-2024

2023

Cholangiocarcinomas
Panamanian Golden Frog tetany study

Lab Animal Medicine

2025-Rat Roommates: Aged Male Laboratory Rats Seek Close Proximity to Conspecifics
2024-Rapid Lamp-Based Diagnostic Test (RLDT) Development for Efficient Shigella Detection
2023-An Evaluation of Pair Housing and Relationship Strength on Nonhuman Primate Sleep Quality

T35 Research Scholars

2024

Borrellia burgdorferi-induced immune dsyregulation as a potential mechanism of endotoxemia
Identifying markers of chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy with immunofluorescence microscopy
Determining biomarkers for radiotherapy in a dose-limiting organ: the kidney
Risk factors of coagulase-positive staphylococci carriage in animal-assisted intervention patients and dogs
PID controller validation for use in HYPER system for in vivo heating
The impact of the Non-Nutritive Sweetener Allulose on the Gut Microbiome and Metabolic Syndrome

2023

Phenotyping of HIV-1 ASP in an Inducible CD4+ Cell Specific Transgenic Mouse Model
Histopathological analysis of nanoparticles distribution & its correlation with cells in tumor microenvironment”
Association between extracellular vesicles and peripheral blood neutrophils in non-human primates
Measles virus infection induces IP-10 release but not inflammasome activation in respiratory epithelial cells
AAV-hTauSeeded Mice as a Screening Model for nSMase2 Inhibitors
Exploring the combination of carboplatin with the stimulator of interferon genes (STING) agonist in canine osteosarcoma