
2023 Lifetime Achievement Award
Dr. Graham Plastow
University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB)
Dr. Plastow was the 2023 NSIF winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award. He worked at PIC for many years and then moved to Alberta to work in academia. He started Delta Genomics that was more recently acquired by GeneSeek.

2023 Lauren Christian Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Mary Kate Hollifield
University of Georgia - Athens (UGA)
Mary Kate works for Dr. Ignacy Misztal and has done research in several topics involving swine.

2023 Lauren Christian Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Caleb Grohmann
University of Missouri
Caleb is currently a PhD candidate with Dr. Jared Decker at the University of Missouri working with the Maschhoffs dataset on mortality.

2022 Lifetime Achievement Award
Dr. Daniel C. Ciobanu
University of Nebraska - Lincoln (UNL)
Dr. Ciobanu was the 2022 NSIF winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award. He has been instrumental in his research on PCV2 among other research projects that helped the swine industry.

2022 Lauren Christian Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dalton Obermier
University of Nebraska - Lincoln (UNL)
Dalton is a PhD student with Dr. Benny Mote (currently secretary). He studied….