UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine

School of Veterinary Medicine


   
Portrait Niels C. Pedersen, DVM, PhD

Distinguished Professor
Director, Center for Companion Animal Health
Director, Veterinary Genetics Laboratory

Department of Medicine and Epidemiology
2108 Tupper Hall
University of California
One Shields Ave
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: 530-752-1363
Fax: 530-752-0414

E-mail: ncpedersen@ucdavis.edu
   
   
   
Research
Infectious diseases of dogs and cats in shelter and multi-animal environments; applied canine and feline genetics.

   
Teaching
Means to foster clinical research; application of canine and feline genetics to indigenous dog and cat populations; the canine major histocompatibility complex and its role in immune disease and genetic diversity, host and agent factors and their influence on the manifestation of certain infectious diseases of cats.

   
Service
Director, Veterinary Genetics Laboratory
Director, Center for Companion Animal Health
Past Chair, Department of Medicine
International authority
on retrovirology and immunological disorder in small animal comparative genetics.
   
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