Alliance researcher Dr. Dorothee Bienzle honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award

The recently retired professor emerita in the Ontario Veterinary College's Department of Pathobiology was honoured by the American Society of Veterinary Clinical Pathology (ASVCP) with the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award for her extensive work in veterinary clinical pathology.

Bienzle's equine asthma research has been funded in part by the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance.

Many older horses develop ‘heaves’, the equine-equivalent of human asthma, from regular exposure to dusty hay, straw and mold spores. It is an uncomfortable condition for horses, which is why Bienzle aims to identify how to diagnose heaves earlier and explore how this disease develops in the first place.  

Read more on the OVC website: Dr. Dorothee Bienzle Honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award