Canine Health Foundation News Alert

Next Video Released from the 2009
National Parent Club Canine Health Conference

Monday, January 25, 2010

The Canine Health Foundation is pleased to announce the publication of the next video recorded at the 2009 National Parent Club Canine Health Conference held in St. Louis. The October conference, sponsored by Nestle Purina PetCare Company, brought together leading researchers and representatives from national breed clubs to discuss the current state of canine health research, and where the future will lead.

The presentation on immunonutrition was made by Ebenezer Satyaraj, PhD. Click here to view the videos from the 2009 National Parent Club Canine Health Conference.

Dr. Satyaraj graduated with a Masters degree in Medical Microbiology from University of Madras, Madras, India in 1990. He completed his formal education by earning a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Immunology from the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India in 1996. He continued his training at the University of Chicago, Illinois, as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Department of Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology doing research in Molecular Immunology. Dr. Satyaraj subsequently accepted an Instructor's position at the Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, where he taught Immunology and conducted research in the area of autoimmunity. In 2001 he joined Molecular Staging Inc. New Haven, Connecticut, a biotech company started with technology from Yale University, working in the area of cytokines and disease biomarkers. At Molecular Staging Inc. Dr. Satyaraj lead research collaborations with universities and the pharmaceutical industry, resulting in two seminal publications one on cytokine biomarkers for cerebral palsy & the other on biomarkers for inflammatory bowel diseases and several patents. Dr. Satyaraj joined Nestlé Purina in 2003 where he currently serves as Senior Research Scientist at the Nestlé Research Center conducting research in the area of nutritional immunology & cytokine biology. Dr. Satyaraj has authored numerous scientific papers in the areas of cellular / molecular immunology and cytokine biology, including a recent publication in the journal Science that explains size variations in dogs and lectures internationally in the area of Nutritional Immunology. Dr. Satyaraj is a member of the American Association of Immunologists and the American Veterinary Immunology Association, serves on the Editorial Board of International Journal of Immunological Studies and is a reviewer for several journals including Arthritis & Rheumatism and Journal of Gerontology.

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Date published:  January 25, 2010