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Dr. Khan L. Junatas, a faculty member of the College of Veterinary Medicine in the University of Southern Mindanao, was awarded a prestigious Laureate Award through the paper titled: “Telocytes in the Chick Embryonic Heart”.
Dr. Junatas is a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium. The original paper titled “Ultrastructural evidence of telocytes in the embryonic chick heart” was published in Anatomia Histologia Embryologia. It reported the morphologic evidence of a new cell type, called telocytes, in the developing heart (cardiogenesis), using the chick embryo model.
The Zietzschmann-Preuss Award for the Promotion of Research in Veterinary Embryology is dedicated to preserving the memory of Prof. Dr. Phil., Dr. Med. Vet. H.c. Otto Zietzschmann, veterinary anatomist in Zürich (1906-1924) and in Hannover (1924-1948). It is issued annually and was established through a donation by Prof. A.D. Dr. Fritz Preuss, veterinary anatomist in Berlin (1955-1979) and a pupil of Otto Zietzschmann.
The 2025 laureate is awarded to the main author chosen by the Board of Trustees of the World Association of Veterinary Anatomists (WAVA).
