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Veterinary Diagnostics and Infectious Disease (VDID)
Team goal
The Utah State University VDID team's goal is to conduct interdisciplinary research that will lead to commercial opportunities in the areas of infectious disease and diagnostics.
Faculty
Team description
As part of a USTAR focus area in biodevice and biopharma innovation, Veterinary Diagnostics and Infectious Disease (VDID) draws on the strength of USU’s College of Agriculture to tackle a $1 billion per year market in the United States for animal disease screening and diagnostics.
VDID at USU will provide a “web of innovation by encouraging collaboration between current USU researchers and VDID,” said Ken White, VDID team member. “The web between VDID and USU researchers holds the promise of novel ideas and innovative technologies.”
VDID has identified veterinary diagnostic tests that have undesirable limitations due to expense, limited reliability and lack of specificity. With these limitations identified, VDID will produce innovative and novel ideas and technologies that will reach the market through new companies and licenses.
Animal diagnostics with immediate commercial value that the team will target include:
- BVD screen
- Alternative spongiform encephalopathies
- Trichomoniasis
- Mycoplasma
- Influenza
- Bovine Rotavirus and Coronavirus
- Vesicular Stomatitis Virus
- Bluetongue
Some of the collaboration assets the team can draw upon include:
- Utah Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (UVDL)
- Animal/BL3 plus testing lab in new USTAR building
- Center for Integrated BioSystems (CIB)
- Institute for Antiviral Research (IAR)
- Support and collaboration of Utah Department of Agriculture & Food