June 28, 2024
College of Veterinary Medicine appoints Dana Vanlandingham as interim associate dean of research
The College of Veterinary Medicine has appointed Dana Vanlandingham, professor in diagnostic medicine/pathobiology, to serve as interim associate dean for research and graduate programs. She is filling in for Hans Coetzee, who was recently appointed by Kansas State University to serve as the interim vice president for research.
Vanlandingham was recruited to the College of Veterinary Medicine in 2013. In addition to being on the faculty, she serves as director of the BSL-1 and BSL-3 Insectary in the Biosecurity Research Institute. She is also a graduate faculty member of the K-State Master of Public Health program and the graduate school, and she is a member of the Center for Vaccine Evaluation at the College of Veterinary Medicine Kansas State University.
Over her career, Vanlandingham has obtained $7.9 million in research grants as principal investigator at K-State and more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in journals such as Nature, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Medicine. She has mentored nearly 20 graduate students and regularly presents training opportunities for young scientists to work in high-containment facilities through several sponsored training programs.
Vanlandingham is a fellow with the Royal Entomological Society of London, and a fellow in the Marty Vanier and Bob Krause Biosecurity Research Institute Research Fellowship program at K-State.
Prior to joining Kansas State University, Vanlandingham spent four years as a research scientist at the Heska Corporation, Fort Collins, Colorado, and held a postdoctoral fellow and an assistant professor position at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas.
Vanlandingham earned bachelor's and master's degrees in microbiology at Colorado State University. She completed a doctorate at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the U.K.