Continued growth in productivity and increased need for funding of personnel have created considerable pressure to complete our new research facility and to removate the space allocated to us in the old Dairy Science building. In addition to doing the research, we continue to disseminate the information at equine veterinary meetings and human orthopaedic meetings. Further, we have been invited to present our cartilage healing research and the gene therapy work at a number of international human meetings. All faculty involved in the program also actively disseminate the important information at the horse owner level. Obviously these accomplishments cannot be achieved without excellent support from corporate and individual donors.
Fund raising remains a challenge.
Our next goal is to gain endowments that will allow us to pursue continued and ongoing work and that will offer security to our senior investigators. We thank everyone for their past support. We look to the future with enthusiasm. Our mission is investigation in the pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of joint disease for the betterment of animals and humans. Our plan to accomplish this is through better characterization of joint disease to elucidate improved ways to diagnose, treat and prevent the problems that occur.