Martin K. Nielsen, DVM, PhD, an assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, has accepted an assistant professor appointment in parasitology at the University of Kentucky’s (UK) Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center. Nielsen will join the UK Department of Veterinary Science as a faculty member in August.

Dr. Martin Nielsen

"The opening of a faculty position in equine parasitology at the Gluck Equine Research Center and the appointment of Dr. Martin Nielsen to this position is a response to real challenges in parasite control as a result of increased resistance of parasites against known drugs," said Mats Troedsson, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACT, ECAR, Gluck Center director and chair of UK’s Department of Veterinary Science