The Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine (VMCVM) at Virginia Tech has an immediate available post-DVM graduate training position leading to a PhD degree to start in the Fall semester 2020. This position is funded by the National Institutes of Health as a part of T32 graduate training program on “Animal Model Research for Veterinarians” (AMRV). The AMRV program is designed to train veterinarians to become world-class biomedical scientists in the areas of animal models of immunology and inflammation, infectious diseases, and neuroscience. Faculty mentors participating in this NIH training program are conducting cutting-edge research in the areas of animal models of human diseases.  The post-DVM trainees will enroll into a PhD graduate program in Biomedical and Veterinary Scien