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Roff wins C.L. Davis Scholarship Award

Dr. Sarah Beatty and Dr. Shannon Roff, shown after Beatty presented Roff with the CL Davis Student Scholarship Award. (Photo by Dr. William Castleman)

Dr. Shannon Roff, a graduate student and resident at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, has received the 2015 C.L. Davis Student Scholarship Award for her scholastic achievement in the area of veterinary pathology.

Roff, who is the college’s first student to pursue her Ph.D. concurrently with her anatomical pathology residency, received the award during the annual meeting of the American College of Veterinary Pathology, held Oct. 17-21 in Minneapolis. Representing the UF College of Veterinary Medicine faculty in the award presentation was Dr. Sarah Beatty, a clinical assistant professor in the department of physiological sciences and clinical pathology specialist.

The C.L. Davis Foundation has presented the award since 1976 to postgraduate students or residents-in-training in veterinary pathology to recognize superior scholarship, leadership, research ability and/or diagnostic skills.

Roff’s research is focused on identifying immunogens using T cells from HIV-positive people to create a vaccine against HIV. Roff’s clinical work is made possible through a collaboration with her clinical science mentor, Dr. Mobeen H. Rathore, director of UF’s Center for HIV/AIDS Research, Education and Service at UF Health Jacksonville, and through a TL-1 grand through the Clinical Translational Science Institute’s predoctoral training program.

Roff and Beatty both received their D.V.M. degrees from UF in 2011.