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Flaminio honored as the first Harry M. Zweig Assistant Professor in Equine Health
FOR RELEASE: February 6, 2006
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Maria Julia Bevilaqua Felippe Flaminio, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVIM, assistant professor of large animal medicine at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine was recently named the Harry M. Zweig Assistant Professor in Equine Health. Dr. Flaminio is the first recipient of this term endowed position from the Harry M. Zweig Memorial Fund for Equine Research and the College of Veterinary Medicine. The three-year honor is given to a junior faculty member who shows promise and productivity in the field of equine research.
The award was officially announced by Dean Donald F. Smith, Austin O. Hooey Dean of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, at the annual conference of Equine Practitioners' on Thursday, November 10, 2005. This announcement was followed by a presentation entitled "The First Steps of the Immune System of the Foal" given by Dr. Flaminio as the Zweig Celebration Speaker in recognition of 25 years of collaboration between the Zweig Memorial Fund and the College of Veterinary Medicine.
Dr. Flaminio joined the Department of Clinical Sciences in 2001. She obtained her DVM in 1989 from the Universidade Estadual Paulista-UNESP-Botucatu, Brazil, completed an internship in equine surgery and medicine in 1995, a Master's degree in 1997 and a residency in equine veterinary internal medicine in 1998 at Kansas State University. In 1999 Dr. Flaminio became board certified from the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and received her PhD. in Immunology in 2002 from Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine.
Dr. Flaminio has exhibited expertise in research of the equine immune system with specific attention to the foal. She currently has funding from the Harry M. Zweig Memorial Fund to investigate how the immune system of a foal responds to a Rhodococcus equi infection. In addition, she was a past recipient of a grant award from the President's Council of Cornell Women entitled "The Effect of CpG-ODN on the Antigen Presenting Cells of Foals." This study tested the effect of an adjuvant called cytosine-phosphate-guanosine oligodeoxynucleotide (CpG-ODN) in the immune response of equine neonate.
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