Carolyn Hodo

DVM, PhD, DACVP

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Dr.Hodo

I am an Assistant Professor and Section Chief of Veterinary Pathology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research. My research interests include zoonotic disease ecology and epidemiology, comparative pathology, animal models, and within-host pathogen interactions.

 

Updates

Rebecca Bacon, PhD student, awarded NIH T32 Fellowship

Rebecca Bacon, a veterinary pathologist and PhD student who I am co-mentoring with Dr. Sara Lawhon, was awarded a Ruth L Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Grant (T32) for 3 years of PhD study at Texas A&M University on her project “Characterization of idiopathic chronic diarrhea in Rhesus macaques as a […]

New job position – Assistant Professor at M.D. Anderson

On August 1st, I joined M.D. Anderson’s Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research as an Assistant Professor, Research Faculty Appointment. I’m very excited to start this next chapter of my career and look forward to continuing my research on T. cruzi, mastering non-human primate pathology, contributing to GLP pre-clinical drug studies, and working to […]

New Job Position – Lecturer in Anatomic Pathology

I’ve accepted a position as a “Lecturer” in anatomic pathology in the Veterinary Pathobiology department at Texas A&M University. The primary responsibilities of this position are to oversee and teach pathology residents and vet students on the necropsy service in the pathology diagnostic lab at the veterinary teaching hospital. The position also affords some flex […]

Brazospox paper just out in Emerging Infectious Diseases journal

Exciting publication from a really cool side project – we identified a novel poxvirus in skin lesions of wild Baiomys mice in Texas. This was a great collaboration between Texas A&M Vet Med, Wildlife & Fisheries, and the CDC! https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/6/17-2057_article 

Grant awarded for Chagas work in non-human primates

Very excited that we were awarded a $30,000 grant from the American College of Lab Animal Medicine (ACLAM) Foundation to study transmission ecology of Trypanosoma cruzi among non-human primates in a research and breeding facility in Central Texas. We in the Hamer lab have been collaborating with researchers at this facility for a few years (see […]