Researchers will evaluate genes associated with squamous cell carcinoma – a common cancer in horses affecting the eye area – to gauge their value as new therapeutic targets and their use in early cancer detection.

Researchers will fill in missing information in the horse genome associated with tendon health and aging.

Researchers will develop a novel model to study limb wound-healing and skinhealing complications in horses.

Researchers will investigate a new and promising treatment for oral squamous cell carcinoma, the most common oral cancer in cats.

Researchers will study cats with a protective immune response to feline enteric coronavirus (a common intestinal virus that can mutate and cause deadly feline infectious peritonitis) with the aim of identifying targets for a vaccine strategy.

Researchers will use DNA sequencing technology to better understand biological mechanisms that help cats fight off viral infections; highly applicable for the development of the next generation of vaccines.

Researchers will investigate novel methods of measuring chronic pain hypersensitivity in cats with osteoarthritis and other degenerative joint diseases to improve diagnostic and treatment strategies.

Researchers will study a new, long-term method to reduce botfly infestations in Ridgway's hawk nests, a direct cause of high nestling mortality in this species.

Researchers will identify candidate viral proteins that will be used to help develop a vaccine against elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus, a lethal hemorrhagic disease in young elephants.

Researchers will investigate the impacts of sub-lethal lead exposure on physiology, behavior and reproductive success of the northern mockingbird in New Orleans.