The Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center is the only scientific institute in the United States with nearly all faculty conducting full-time research in equine health and diseases.
Research dedicated to horse health
Today, the Gluck Center faculty conduct equine research in six targeted areas: genetics and genomics, infectious diseases and immunology, musculoskeletal science, parasitology, pharmacology/toxicology and reproductive health.
The mission of the Gluck Center is scientific discovery, education and dissemination of knowledge for the benefit of the health and well-being of horses.
Today, the Gluck Center faculty conduct equine research in six targeted areas: genetics and genomics, infectious diseases and immunology, musculoskeletal science, parasitology, pharmacology/toxicology and reproductive health.
Major research accomplishments of researchers at the Gluck Center has had an international impact on equine research. Some of the major research accomplishments include:
- World Organisation for Animal Health (O.I.E.)-designated world reference laboratory for equine rhinopneumonitis, equine influenza and equine viral arteritis
- Developed six major vaccines to protect against strangles, equine influenza, equine rhinopneumonitis, equine viral arteritis, the shaker foal syndrome (toxoinfectious botulism) and validated field safety and efficacy of equine rotavirus vaccine
- Developed diagnostic serological tests for contagious equine metritis (CEM), Tyzzer’s disease, equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM), equine herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy, strangles and equine viral arteritis,
- Developed enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) test for drug detection • Demonstrated the usefulness of artificial lights and progesterone/estradiol treatments for hastening the onset of the breeding season
- Determined the genetic basis for and developed tests for inheritance of certain color coat traits
- Provided leadership in the sequencing of the complete genome of the horse and structural characterization of horse genes
- Performed the definitive experiments that identified the cause of Mare Reproductive Loss Syndrome.