Laboratory Animal Medicine

Prof. James G. Fox obtained his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, and, as an NIH postdoctoral fellow, received a Master of Science in Medical Microbiology at Stanford University. Dr. Fox is an adjunct professor at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine. He is a diplomate and a past president of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine, as well as a past president of the Massachusetts Society for Medical Research and the American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges. Additionally, he has served as past chairman of the AAALAC Council and the NCCR/NIH Comparative Medicine Study Section. He is also an elected fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America and the American Gastroenterological Association. He was recruited to MIT and created the Division of Comparative Medicine, which he directed from 1974 until 2021. As a faculty member in the MIT Department of Biological Engineering, Professor Fox received numerous scientific awards and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2004. Dr. Fox has been the principal investigator of an NIH postdoctoral training grant for veterinarians for 30 years and has trained 90 veterinarians for careers in biomedical research. The NIH has continuously funded him to study infectious diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, where he has studied the gastrointestinal microbiome and how it interfaces with and influences the host’s immune response to gastrointestinal pathogens, particularly oncogenic Helicobacter species. He has authored over 600 papers, 84 chapters, holds 4 patents and has authored or edited 18 comparative medicine texts.

Dr. Kelly A. Metcalf Pate is Director of the Division of Comparative Medicine and faculty of Biological Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as adjunct faculty at Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and at Johns Hopkins School f of Medicine.  She is a veterinarian-scientist with over 15 years of experience and more than 40 peer reviewed publications spanning the disciplines of comparative medicine, virology, and immunology. She obtained her D.V.M. from Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine, and pursued both veterinary specialty training in laboratory animal medicine and her Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Metcalf Pate is a Diplomate of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine, acts as an Ad Hoc Specialist for AAALAC International, and has served on multiple national committees, including in the past, as chair on the Scientific Advisory Committee for the American Association of Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS), as chair for the Animal Welfare Advisory Board of Morris Animal Foundation, as a member on the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine committee on the Nonhuman Primate Model Systems, and as a member on the NIH Advisory Committee to the Director Working Group on Catalyzing the Development and Use of Novel Alternative Methods to Advance Biomedical Research.

Dr. Pritchett-Corning is Attending Veterinarian and Director of the Office of Animal Resources at the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences and an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Medicine at the University of Washington. She has more than 30 years of experience in laboratory animal science and medicine, with a focus on rodents and animal-based husbandry research. Dr. Pritchett-Corning received her BS and her DVM from Washington State University and completed her post-doctoral training in laboratory animal medicine at the University of Washington. She has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. She is the Chair of the Laboratory Animal Working Group of the AVMA Panel on Euthanasia and the AVMA Panel on Depopulation, as well as a member of the FELASA Working Group on Health Monitoring, and the joint AALAS/FELASA Working Group on Health Monitoring of Rodents for Animal Transfer. Dr. Pritchett-Corning has held positions at the University of Washington, the Jackson Laboratory, and Charles River.