Dr. Izabela de Assis Rocha, postdoctoral scholar in Dr. Daniel Howe’s laboratory, has been awarded a research grant from Morris Animal Foundation.

The project is titled “Investigation of the Immunopathogenesis of Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis." Dr. Rocha and collaborators will study why a small percentage of horses infected with the causative parasite Sarcocystis neurona are afflicted with a severe neurological disease called equine protozoal myeloencephalitis, while other infected horses are unaffected.