Department of Animal Science Advantages of Domestic Species As Dual Purpose Models

Because domestic species have enormous value both to biomedicine and agriculture and may be underutilized as biomedical models, this workshop has four objectives:

• To provide a forum for exchange of ideas among scientists that use domestic species as biomedical models, officials at NIH and USDA, and university administrators at land grant institutions.
• To emphasize the scientific importance of domestic species as biomedical models that contribute to human and animal health and well-being, and animal agriculture.
• To identify high priority research areas that could be advanced by enhanced use of domestic animals as biomedical models.
• To explore the potential need and justification for an interagency program that would be co-funded by one or more instiututions within the NIH and by USDA-CSREES and perhaps others (industry, state governments) to support research in high priority areas that could be advanced by the use of domestic species as comparative animal models.