The University of Kentucky’s (UK) College of Agriculture, Food and Environment has named David Horohov, PhD, as interim chair of the Department of Veterinary Science—a position which also serves as director for the Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center—and Jenny Evans as interim executive director of the Gluck Equine Research Foundation.

Horohov, professor and Jes E. and Clementine M. Schlaikjer Endowed Chair at the Gluck Center, specializes in equine immunology research. He joined the Gluck Center in 2003. Previously, he was a professor of veterinary immunology within the Department of Pathobiological Sciences at Louisiana State University’s School of Veterinary Medicine.

Horohov earned his bachelor’s in entomology from Pennsylvania State University, his master’s in insect pathology from Purdue University, and his doctorate in immunology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He completed a post-doctorate in cytokine biology with the Food and Drug Administration