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Veterinary Diagnostic Lab asks board to help fund two staff positions and deploy federal equipment funds
Summary
VDL director Hemith Naikiri told the board the lab has a 25% case increase at the poultry testing site, needs two additional staff at MPTL, has a $250,000 MALDI‑TOF purchase funded by ARP and a $1 million congressional earmark for lab infrastructure, and seeks help finding sustainable personnel funding.
Hemith Naikiri, laboratory director of the University Veterinary Diagnostic Lab (VDL), asked the Board of Animal Health for help identifying funding and recruiting options to fill two critical positions at the Minnesota Poultry Testing Laboratory (MPTL). He said MPTL is operating with a skeleton crew (about a dozen staff) while case volume there has increased…
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