Academic Departments

The Department of Biomedical Sciences provides superior education in basic health sciences with courses spanning the undergraduate, graduate and professional DVM curricula.

VCS faculty members teach over one-third of the professional veterinary curriculum courses in the fully accredited DVM program, however, most classroom teaching is concentrated in the second and third years.

VDPAM is recognized as a leader, sought as a collaborator, and trusted as a provider of solutions to the food animal and population medicine challenges of the world.

Our VMPM faculty promote the understanding of causes of infectious disease in animals and the mechanisms by which diseases develop at the organismal, cellular and molecular levels. Veterinary microbiology also includes research on the interaction of pathogenic and symbiotic microbes with their hosts and the host response to infection.

Our department provides diagnostic services to the ISU Lloyd Veterinary Medical Center and practicing veterinarians. We hire and train board-certified pathologists, clinical pathologists, and parasitologists to provide services of excellence and quality. Our faculty promote interdisciplinary collaboration and support a diverse spectrum of research technologies to further enhance a strong research and graduate program.