Over 600 participants attended the 13th annual Merial‐NIH Symposium at the Kellogg Center, East Lansing, Michigan, hosted by the College of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan State University. Over 435 veterinary students from 36 veterinary schools, including 27 from US institutions, three from Canada, two from the Caribbean, three from France, and one from Holland, were represented at the symposium as well as veterinary students training at NCI, NIH. Other participants included University Program Directors as well as representatives from the NIH, Merial, Burroughs Wellcome, the Association of American Veterinary Colleges, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Students attending the symposium included veterinary students participating in the summer research program, DVM/PhD students and postdoctoral veterinarians in research training programs. The over‐riding theme of the symposium was “Comparative Medicine: Meeting Global Needs”.
