Over 450 people make up MIP Department including faculty, staff, graduate students, veterinary residents, postdocs, and research associates.
Over sixty faculty members bring the department world-class research focusing on diseases caused by arthropod-borne viruses, mycobacteria, retroviruses, prions, and parasites, including those that cause malaria.
Faculty also participate in the training of graduate students in pathobiology, biomedical research, microbiology, and immunology, and in the training of veterinary residents in veterinary microbiology, anatomic pathology, and clinical pathology.
Faculty play a key role in the Department's highly active undergraduate program where they serve as mentors for undergraduate students and place students in their laboratories where classroom lessons are translated into research practices.
Department Administration includes the Department Head, three Associate Department Heads, and 15 Administrative Support Staff. The three Associate Department Heads provide leadership in each of the Department's focus areas; Undergraduate Education, Graduate Education and Research, and Professional Veterinary Medicine and Clinical Service.
