The Zoetis Horse Call Grant review committee is pleased to announce the award of a Horse Call Grant for the study proposal, “Transabdominal Ultrasonography: A Monitoring Tool for Parascaris equorum Burdens in Foals,” by Martin Nielsen, DVM, PhD, Dipl. EVPC, ACVM, and Jill Stowe, PhD. 

Nielsen is an assistant professor of parasitology at the Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center, University of Kentucky, in Lexington. His co-investigator is Stowe, an associate professor who is the Dickson Professor of Equine Science and Management in the Department of Agricultural Economics and in the Department of Economics at the University of Kentucky.

“We believe that the most productive way to advance veterinary research will be through an open model of discovery,” said Dr. Rob Holland, director of Zoetis outcomes research. “There is a real economic value imposed on horse owners when their horse becomes sick and a real value when disease is prevented from occurring. We would like to help establish what the intrinsic value is when this is done and to determine how a practice achieves this.”

The Zoetis Horse Call Grant Award is an annual program which helps fund one or more individuals through a grant for innovative, clinically relevant research proposals that determine the economic impact of equine encephalitic, parasitic, respiratory, or other infectious diseases or the impact of preventing these diseases