MBIOSC - Veterinary Biomedical Science (MS)

The Veterinary Biomedical Sciences (VBS) program in the College of Veterinary Medicine is designed to train graduate students through excellence in teaching and innovative basic, applied, and clinical research that improves animal and human health.  The program offers opportunities for DVM students to concurrently work on a dual degree program (DVM/MS) to gain research experience to enhance their career opportunities and to meet the demands of internships and residencies.  The graduate faculty members in the program have established programmatic requirements, guided by the policies of the Graduate School, for admission, supervision, and completion of the MS degree. 

Areas of Emphasis

The VBS program has three areas of emphasis or subdisciplines, Anatomy and Physiology, Clinical Sciences, and Pathobiology, which are under the supervision of the graduate faculty in the Departments of Anatomy and Physiology, Clinical Sciences, and Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, respectively.  The research activities of the graduate faculty are in specialized areas of Infectious and noninfectious diseases, including Zoonotic Diseases and Transboundary Diseases, metabolic diseases, Anatomy, Bacteriology, Epidemiology, Immunology, Parasitology, Pharmacology, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Nanotechnology, Physiological Sciences, Clinical Sciences, Companion Animal Health, Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Cancer Biology and Treatment, Food Animal Health and Management, Food Safety and Security, Stem Cell Biology, and Translational Medicine.  The research activities and discovery strengths of the faculty in the program are organized and focused in Centers and Institutes, which include the Beef Cattle Institute, Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases (CEEZAD), Center for Outcomes Research and Education (CORE), Midwest Institute for Comparative Stem Cell Biology and the U.S.-China Center for Animal Health.  In addition, graduate students in the program have opportunities to work with scientists in the federal research institutes, such as the Arthropod-Borne Animal Disease Research Unit (ABADRU), a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) institute in Manhattan, KS to study vector borne diseases and the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility), formerly Plum Island Animal Disease Center, a USDA laboratory to study transboundary diseases.