# Michigan State University VDL VetLIRN 2017

> **NIH FDA U18** · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $40,800

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract:
The overall objective is to enhance the capability and capacity for surveillance, early detection of, and rapid
response to animal food or drug related illnesses or other large-scale animal food/feed emergency events
requiring surge capacity testing of implicated diagnostic or animal food/feed samples. This increased capacity
will occur within a full-service veterinary diagnostic laboratory staffed and equipped to provide complete
pathological, microbiological, and comprehensive toxicological testing for FDA, CVM, and federal, state, or
local agencies.
The Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health (DCPAH), College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan
State University, serves as the official veterinary diagnostic laboratory for the State of Michigan and is one of
the busiest in the U.S., conducting in excess of 1 million tests annually. The laboratory has an extensive client
base, with clients in all 50 states and Canada. The staff comprises 120 faculty and support staff in eight
laboratory sections, plus Epidemiology. Individual laboratory sections include Bacteriology, Virology,
Immunodiagnostics/Parasitology, Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, Toxicology, Nutrition, and
Endocrinology.
DCPAH also houses wildlife biologists and diagnosticians from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources
(MDNR) and regulatory veterinarians from the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
(MDARD). This unique arrangement facilitates efforts to address the important interface between domestic
animals and wildlife. The laboratory is fully accredited by the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory
Diagnosticians (AAVLD) to perform diagnostic testing on all animal species, and has been admitted to the
National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN), the Laboratory Response Network (LRN), The Food
Emergency Response Network (FERN), and the Veterinary Laboratory Response Network (Vet-LRN).
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## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10189616
- **Project number:** 5U18FD006175-05
- **Recipient organization:** MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** KIMBERLY DODD
- **Activity code:** U18 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $40,800
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-08-01 → 2022-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10189616

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10189616, Michigan State University VDL VetLIRN 2017 (5U18FD006175-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10189616. Licensed CC0.

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