{"id":8159,"date":"2025-12-04T07:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/?page_id=8159"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:56:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:56:49","slug":"cvm-graduate-student-honored-in-international-competition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/cvm-graduate-student-honored-in-international-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"CVM Graduate Student Honored in International Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div\n\tclass=\"paragraph-widget paragraph-widget--text-html\">\n\t<div class=\"text-content\">\n\t\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8164\" src=\"https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/ching-yang1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Ching-Yang Wang wearing lab coat pictured in research lab\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/ching-yang1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/ching-yang1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/ching-yang1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/ching-yang1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/ching-yang1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/ching-yang1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>December 4, 2025<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nDr. Ching-Yang Wang, graduate student in the College of Veterinary Medicine&#8217;s Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, was the only U.S. student who won an award at the 11th Asian Pig Veterinary Society Congress held in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Wang&#8217;s presentation was &#8220;Evaluation of Maternally Derived Immunity to Improve PRRSV Vaccination and Control Programs&#8221; for which he received the Oral Student Award.<\/p>\n<p>He works on Iowa State&#8217;s Field Epidemiology Team with CVM faculty members Dr. Daniel Linhares and Dr. Pablo Pineyro, on maternally-derived antibodies (MDAs) against PRSSV.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The objective of the project is to characterize the MDAs in the field conditions, such as unstable v.s. stable-vaccinated herds,&#8221; Wang said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8165\" src=\"https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/chingyangwang-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ching-Yang Wang at conference podium\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/chingyangwang-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/chingyangwang-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/chingyangwang-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/chingyangwang-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/chingyangwang-1583x2048.jpg 1583w, https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/chingyangwang-scaled.jpg 1979w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/>The results showed that unstable herds had higher MDAs than stable-vaccinated herds overall. Wang says the research aims to guide the vaccination program and population management regarding PRRSV control. The team&#8217;s next step is to extend the collection period from breeding herds to the nursery phase, characterizing how herd status and piglet&#8217;s&#8217; vaccination timing influence the MDAs.<\/p>\n<p>Wang holds a DVM and master&#8217;s degree in veterinary pathology from National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan. Before coming to Iowa State, he worked at a research institute and production company developing diagnostic kits and serving as a swine veterinarian.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8159","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"site_sections":["Research","VDPAM","VETMED"]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CVM Graduate Student Honored in International Competition - News Articles<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/article\/cvm-graduate-student-honored-in-international-competition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CVM Graduate Student Honored in International Competition - 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