Source: NCSU COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE, 10/5/20


The National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration are awarding five years of additional funding for two national surveillance programs tracking bacterial pathogens at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine.

The CVM is the only place in the United States home to both monitoring systems.  

The funding supports the global GenomeTrakr program and the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) at the CVM, both overseen by Sid Thakur, director of global health at the CVM and NC State.

The programs are vital tools in tracking and halting the spread of infectious disease outbreaks caused by bacteria resistant to antibiotics, an ever-growing threat to human and animal health around the world. The CVM has been home to both programs for two years.

Paula Cray, head of the CVM’s Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, is the co-primary investigator on both surveillance grants. For the NARMS project, Thakur collaborates with Megan Jacob, CVM associate professor of microbiology and director of diagnostic laboratories.

“The fact that we have received an additional five years of funding for both programs is a testament to our efforts,” says Thakur.

“We have expanded these programs globally, and they are integral to the success of our global health program.”

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