Nicholas J Haley, D.V.M., Ph.D.Profile page
Associate Professor
Microbiology & Immunology
BIO
I completed my Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine in 2004, and despite an initial interest in emergency medicine, several years of research and more than a few great role models convinced me to pursue infectious disease research. My early years of veterinary school were seemingly full of fascinating infectious disease outbreaks across the globe - Foot and Mouth Disease and BSE in the UK, Avian Influenza in Southeast Asia, and SARS in Asia and Canada. Based on my developing interests in wildlife and prion diseases, I decided to pursue a Microbiology residency and PhD at Colorado State University.
Both my residency training within the CSU Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and my research in the lab of Dr. Ed Hoover at CSU was incredibly rewarding. Dr. Hoover has been of the most highly respected researchers in the areas of both feline retroviruses and Chronic Wasting Disease - a prion disease of deer, elk, and other cervid species. With the help of an NIH T32 grant, my graduate research began with investigating the role of various bodily fluids in the transmission of CWD between deer, using newly developed amplification techniques and transgenic mouse bioassay. I continued to apply these techniques towards a more sensitive diagnosis of CWD in pre-clinical animals, and eventually extended them to surveillance of free-ranging deer across the country.
After completing my PhD and post-doctoral training in 2013, I continued my research in the laboratory of Dr. Juergen Richt at Kansas State University's Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases (CEEZAD) with the help of an NIH K01 award. Like Dr. Hoover, Dr. Richt is another highly respected researcher in the realm of prion diseases as well as a wide range of zoonotic and transboundary diseases. In turn, CEEZAD is charged with developing approaches the mitigate the impact of a number of important emerging zoonotic and transboundary diseases across the globe. While there, I applied the amplification techniques I developed during my graduate training to sensitive live-animal testing approaches for CWD, with the help of deer and elk farmers and a number of state and federal agencies in both the US and Canada. I was also involved in the early stages of the development of a vaccine for African Swine Fever, a disease currently devastating swine operations in Asia and Europe, with Australia, Canada, and the US in its sights.
In 2015 I accepted a position in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Midwestern University's Glendale campus, and I am currently an Associate Professor lecturing on topics covering bacteriology, virology, immunology, and foreign animal diseases in the Colleges of Veterinary Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine.
Both my residency training within the CSU Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and my research in the lab of Dr. Ed Hoover at CSU was incredibly rewarding. Dr. Hoover has been of the most highly respected researchers in the areas of both feline retroviruses and Chronic Wasting Disease - a prion disease of deer, elk, and other cervid species. With the help of an NIH T32 grant, my graduate research began with investigating the role of various bodily fluids in the transmission of CWD between deer, using newly developed amplification techniques and transgenic mouse bioassay. I continued to apply these techniques towards a more sensitive diagnosis of CWD in pre-clinical animals, and eventually extended them to surveillance of free-ranging deer across the country.
After completing my PhD and post-doctoral training in 2013, I continued my research in the laboratory of Dr. Juergen Richt at Kansas State University's Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases (CEEZAD) with the help of an NIH K01 award. Like Dr. Hoover, Dr. Richt is another highly respected researcher in the realm of prion diseases as well as a wide range of zoonotic and transboundary diseases. In turn, CEEZAD is charged with developing approaches the mitigate the impact of a number of important emerging zoonotic and transboundary diseases across the globe. While there, I applied the amplification techniques I developed during my graduate training to sensitive live-animal testing approaches for CWD, with the help of deer and elk farmers and a number of state and federal agencies in both the US and Canada. I was also involved in the early stages of the development of a vaccine for African Swine Fever, a disease currently devastating swine operations in Asia and Europe, with Australia, Canada, and the US in its sights.
In 2015 I accepted a position in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Midwestern University's Glendale campus, and I am currently an Associate Professor lecturing on topics covering bacteriology, virology, immunology, and foreign animal diseases in the Colleges of Veterinary Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine.
MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS
- Associate ProfessorCollege of Veterinary Medicine
- Associate ProfessorCollege of Graduate Studies - Arizona
DEGREES
- Ph.D.Colorado State University, USA2010
- D.V.M.Cornell University, USA2004
ACADEMIC DEGREE PROGRAM
- Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.)
- Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.)
- Master of Biomedical Sciences (M.B.S.)
- Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (D.P.M.)
- Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)
CAMPUS
- Glendale