Pressler, Barrak
Barrak Pressler, DVM, PhD
Diplomate ACVIM
Assistant Professor
Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences
The Ohio State University
1109 Veterinary Medical Center
601 Vernon Tharp St.
Columbus, Ohio 43210
Ph: (614) 292-3551
Fx: (614) 292-0895
pressler [dot] 21 [at] osu [dot] edu
Professional Training and Experience
- 2011 - Present Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University
- 2008 - PhD, Immunology, North Carolina State University
- 2006 - 2011 Assistant Professor, Purdue University
- 2004 - 2006 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- 2000 - 2003 Residency, Small Animal Internal Medicine
- 1999 - 2000 Internship, Rotating Small Animal Medicine and Surgery
- 1999 - DVM, University of California, Davis
- 1995 - BA, University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests
- Small animal nephrology and urology
- Canine and feline glomerular disease
- Glomerular filtration rate measurement
- Primary renal neoplasms and renal lymphoma
- Non-bacterial (algal and fungal) urinary tract infections
- Clinical and translational immunology
- Thionamide-induced anti-myeloperoxidase autoantibody formation in cats
- Innate immunity of the canine and feline urinary tract
- Renal disease-associated alterations in the peripheral lymphocyte repertoire
