Department of Comparative Pathobiology (Graduate)

Website URL:

https://vet.purdue.edu/cpb/index.php

Department/School Head:

Sanjeev Narayanan

Academic Programs:

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

The Department of Comparative Pathobiology in the College of Veterinary Medicine. Purdue University offers graduate instruction leading to the Master of Science (MS) or Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees to persons possessing the DVM degree and to those with a baccalaureate degree and comprehensive training in the biological sciences.  Areas of study include animal welfare science and human-animal interaction, cancer biology, infectious diseases, bacteriology, epidemiology, immunology, laboratory and experimental medicine, parasitology, pathology, public health, toxicology, virology, and molecular genetics.

• Master of Science (MS) or Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees to persons possessing the DVM degree and to those with a baccalaureate degree and comprehensive training in the biological sciences

Concentrations (Areas of Study):

• Areas of study include animal welfare science and human-animal interaction, cancer biology, infectious diseases, bacteriology, epidemiology, immunology, laboratory and experimental medicine, infectious disease, parasitology, pathology, public health, toxicology, virology, and molecular genetics.

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor

Alan M. Beck
Candace Croney
Rainer Fischer
Harm HogenEsch
Stephen B. Hooser
Tsang-Long Lin
Joanne B. Messick
Suresh K. Mittal
Sulma Mohammed
Sanjeev Narayanan
Timothy Ratliff
Willie M. Reed

Associate Professor

John A. Christian
Abigail Cox
Hsin-Yi Weng
Rebecca Wilkes
GuangJun Zhang

Clinical Professor

Clinical Associate Professor 

Assistant Professor

Wendy Beauvais
Meaghan Broman
Sriveny Dangoudoubiyam
Christoph Konradt
Christopher Rice
Andrea Pires dos Santos
Shankar Thangamani

Clinical Assistant Track

Amanda Darbyshire
Geoffrey Lossie
Deepti Pillai
Mario Sola

Research Faculty

Research Associate
Bennett Elzey
Hyunwoo Lee

Research Assistant
Uma Aryal
Nadia Atallah Lanman
Jiang Yang

Emeritus Faculty

Joseph W. Camp
Robert Claflin
Sayed Gaafar
Larry Glickman
Daniel Harrington
Evelyn Kazacos
Kevin Kazacos
Stephen D. Lenz
Margaret Miller
Jose Ramos-Vara
Rose Raskin
Alan Rebar
Lewis Runnels
H. Leon Thacker
William Van Alstine
Patricia Wakenell

Programs

• Comparative Pathobiology, PHD

• Comparative Pathobiology, MS

Courses

• CPB 57600 - Biology And Management Of Laboratory Animals
• CPB 57800 - Animal Models Of Human Disease
• CPB 57900 - Seminar In Comparative Medicine
• CPB 58000 - Special Topics
• CPB 59000 - Special Topics In Animal Welfare And Human-Animal Interaction
• CPB 60000 - Special Problems In Pathology
• CPB 60100 - Advanced Veterinary Clinical Pathology
• CPB 60200 - Advanced Veterinary Anatomic Pathology
• CPB 60300 - Graduate Teaching Practicum
• CPB 60400 - Neoplastic Diseases Of Animals
• CPB 60500 - Pathology Of Avian Diseases
• CPB 61100 - Veterinary Pathology Literature Review Seminar
• CPB 61400 - Topics In Advanced General Pathology
• CPB 61800 - Ethical Issues In Biomedical Research
• CPB 61900 - Design, Conduct, And Analysis Of Clinical Trials
• CPB 62000 - Advanced Immunology
• CPB 62200 - Microbial Pathogenesis
• CPB 62400 - Advanced Laboratory Animal Medicine
• CPB 62500 - Clinical Biostatistics
• CPB 62600 - Design And Analysis Of Epidemiologic Studies
• CPB 63000 - Advanced Veterinary Avian Pathology
• CPB 63100 - Avian Immunology
• CPB 63200 - Avian Medicine
• CPB 63300 - Preventive Avian Medicine Practice
• CPB 63500 - Advanced Veterinary Diagnostic Microbiology
• CPB 63600 - Veterinary Microbiology Seminar
• CPB 68000 - Special Topics
• CPB 69100 - Seminar In Veterinary Pathology
• CPB 69400 - Special Topics In Immunology
• CPB 69500 - Seminar In Epidemiology
• CPB 69700 - Research Seminar
• CPB 69800 - Research MS Thesis
• CPB 69900 - Research PhD Thesis