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CVM Faculty members engage in researches that are not confined to their fields of specialization. Opportunities for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary                  collaborations can often be witnessed.

Department of Basic Veterinary Sciences (DBVS)

Chair: Jussiaea V. Bariuan

NATHAN GENE R. ALCANTARA, DVM, MS

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Animal Breeding; Animal Nutrition; Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

MARY JASMIN C. ANG, DVM, PhD

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Behavioral Neuroscience; Brain Dysfunctions; Hippocampal Neurogenesis; Neuroanatomy; Neurodegenerative Diseases

ARROL JAN B. AQUINO, BS Bio, DVM

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Macroscopic and Microscopic Anatomy of Domestic and Wildlife Animals; Public Health; Ruminant Medicine; Veterinary Microbiology

JUSSIAEA V. BARIUAN, DVM, MAgrSc

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Branched Chain Amino Acids; Brown Adipose Tissue; Obesity and other Metabolic Diseases Concerning Proteins and Lipid

ARIEL M. BOMBIO, DVM

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Applied Anatomy; Diagnostic Imaging

BELLA C. CRUZANA, DVM, PhD

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Comparative Study of Alternative Solutions for Embalming Dogs for Gross Dissection Studies; Immuno-histochemical Detection of Proteins in the Male and Female Reproductive Organs

JOSEPH F. DE LA CRUZ, DVM, MS, PhD

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Animal Biotechnology; Cell Culture; Molecular Genetics

MARK JOSEPH M. DESAMERO, DVM, PhD

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Animal Modeling of Human Diseases; Bioactivity Testing; Cancer Research; Gene Manipulation using GONAD Technique; Interleukin-11 and Tandem Repeat-type Galectin

MARIA AMELITA C. ESTACIO, DVM, MAgrSc, DAgrSci, DPCLAM

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Animal Modelling for Human Diseases; Apitherapy; Biomedical Product Development; Cardiovascular Diseases; Diabetes Mellitus; Inflammation, Pain, Stroke, and Wound Healing

ROXANNE P. GAPASIN, DVM

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Biomedical Research; Preclinical Efficacy and Toxicity Tests in Laboratory Animals, particularly Rodents

CEFERINO P. MAALA, DVM, MVSc, PhD

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Gross and Microscopic Anatomy of Domestic and Wild Animals

MICHELLE GRACE V. PARASO, DVM, MSc, PhD

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Endocrine Disruption in Fish; Environmental Impacts on Animal Health; Fish Biomarkers for Environmental Monitoring

GRACE R. SACNAHON, BS Pharmacy, DVM

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Veterinary Antimicrobial Resistance; Pharmacogenetics

Department of Veterinary Paraclinical Sciences (DVPS)

Chair: Cherry P. Fernandez-Colorado

ERNESTO C. BALOLONG, JR.

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Swine Health and Diagnostics; Biosafety and Biosecurity

DJ DARWIN R. BANDOY, DVM, PhD

JOHN MICHAEL G. BERNARDO, DVM

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interest: Molecular Detection of and Epidemiological Studies on Animal Diseases

THERESE MARIE A. COLLANTES, DVM, MS, PhD

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interest: Molecular Diagnostics of Bacterial and Viral Diseases

BILLY P. DIVINA, DVM, MSc

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Parasite Epidemiology, Diagnosis and Control; Natural Antiparasitic Agents

CHERRY P. FERNANDEZ-COLORADO, DVM, MS, PhD

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Molecular and Cellular Microbiology (Host-pathogen Interactions; Pathogenesis; Immune Responses to Infection)

GIANNE MAY R. GAGAN, DVM, MScGOH

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Veterinary Laboratory Diagnostics; One Health

REMIL L. GALAY, DVM, DVSc

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Arthropod Vector Biology and Control; Arthropod-borne Diseases

EMMANUEL P. HERNANDEZ, DVM, DVSc

MERIAM C. LAURON, DVM, MS

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Veterinary Entomology and Parasitology; Parasitic Arthropods, Helminths and Protozoa Biology, Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment and Control

SUZANNETH EPIFANIA G. LOLA, BSZoo, DVM, MSV Pathology

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Immune Responses; Biomarkers for Neoplastic Processes

SHEINA MACY P. MANALO, DVM, MZOH

CRIS NIÑO BON B. MARASIGAN, DVM

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Clinical and Diagnostic Pathology; Infectious Diseases, Paraneoplastic Syndromes

BENJAMIN REUEL G. MARTE, DVM, MS, PhD

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Nutritional Pathology; Feed Additives Development; Natural Products Development

JOSEPH S. MASANGKAY, DVM, MAgr, DAgrSc

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Laboratory Animal Science Wildlife Diseases; Management Animal Genetics

ALISHA WEHDNESDAY B. REYES, DVM, PHD

  • E-mail Address: [email protected]
  • Research Interest: Finding Alternative and Natural Treatment Against Infectious or Zoonotic Diseases

ROMEO E. SANCHEZ JR., DVM, MSc, PhD

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Molecular Biology; Pathogenic Features of Swine Circovirus, Diseases of Swine

Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences (DVCS)

Chair: Rio John T. Ducusin

JOVENCIO HUBERT A. ABALOS, DVM, MS

AMADEO A. ALCANTARA, DVM, MS

FRANCIS ANDREW EUGENE M. BERNARDO, DVM, MVSt

MATTHEW BENEDICT T. CALIBO, DVM

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Soft tissue Surgery; Internal Medicine

JOHN ADRIAN J. DE RAMOS, DVM

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Exotic, Wildlife, and Marine Mammal Medicine

JESALYN L. CONSTANTE, DVM, MS

FLETCHER P. DEL VALLE, DVM, PhD

RIO JOHN T. DUCUSIN, DVM, MAgr, PhD

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Ruminant Production Medicine; Applied Anatomy

MARIANNE LEILA S. FLORES, DVM, MHA

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Small Animal Internal Medicine; Hospital Administration; Hair and Feather Microscopic Morphology

KARLO ROMANO B. GICANA, DVM, MS, PhD

EMILIA A. LASTICA-TERNURA, DVM, Postgraduate Diploma

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interest: Wildlife Management/ Conservation Medicine

DENISE ARA MARIANO, DVM

REY B. ORONAN, DVM, MS

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Small Animal Medicine and Surgery; Zoonotic Infections (Wildlife)

ARVILLE MAR GREGORIO A. PAJAS, DVM, MS

FLOR MARIE IMMANUELLE R. PILAPIL-AMANTE, DVM, MS

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Theriogenology/Clinical Reproduction; Veterinary Public Health; Veterinary Epidemiology; Ruminant Production and Medicine

MARIA ROSARIO S. RACHO, DVM

MELISSA MARIE R. RONDINA, DVM

  • E-mail Address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests : Development of Animal Models for Human Diseases, Nonhuman Primate Diseases

MARCO F. REYES, DVM, MS

  • E-mail address: [email protected]
  • Research Interests: Small Animal Medicine and Surgery; Small Animal Theriogenology; Surveillance of Zoonotic Diseases of Dogs and Cats

DENNIS V. UMALI, DVM, DVSc​