Mark Jackwood, the J.R. Glisson Professor of Avian Medicine and head of the department of population health, studies respiratory viruses including avian coronavirus, infectious bronchitis virus and avian influenza virus. Jackwood has submitted more than a dozen invention disclosures leading to four issued patents and two pending patent applications. Several of his technologies have been licensed to industry partners leading to four commercial poultry vaccines as well as autogenous vaccines used by the poultry industry, a $28 billion industry in Georgia.