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Researcher demonstrates that DNA impacts cancer risk

Researchers develop new technology to advance surveillance and treatment of infectious diseases

A researcher in the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (UCVM) is using genomic technology in the search for a drug to fight a parasite that costs the cattle industry worldwide billions of dollars a year. “One aspect of my research program is to develop new drugs to treat parasites of livestock and specifically helminths — parasitic roundworms — which cost the Canadian cattle industry an estimated $210 million a year,” says James Wasmuth,associate professor of host-parasite interactions at

VetMed researcher uses genomic technology to battle a costly cattle parasite