Chris Cebra
Department Chair, Clinical Sciences
Pfefferkorn and Wendorf Professor of Camelid Medicine
Dr. Chris Cebra’s main lines of inquiry involve novel immunotherapeutics, energy metabolism and gastrointestinal disorders. For immunotherapeutics, he works with a team of investigators to develop novel diagnostic and therapeutic agents based on camelid-origin heavy-chain antibodies. The main direction is cancer immunotherapy, but a variety of applications have been investigated. Regarding energy metabolism, he has primarily investigated the diabetes-like characteristics of llamas and alpacas, but has completed projects on cattle and horses as well. Regarding gastrointestinal diseases, he has concentrated on causes of colic, parasitic disorders, and other enteritides of camelids. He has also initiated or collaborated on projects in a number of other areas relevant to large animal internal medicine including equine and camelid peritoneal fluid analysis, diagnostic imaging, infectious diseases, and immunology.