Marie Culhane is a veterinarian working with all species but having a special interest in diseases of food animals, especially swine. She retired from a professorship of Veterinary Population Medicine at the College of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Minnesota in June 2025. Throughout her professional career, which began in 1997 when she received her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Minnesota followed by her Doctor of Philosophy in Infectious Diseases from the same institution in 2007, her research involved the antigenic and genetic characterization of influenza A viruses of swine and turkeys, pathogenesis of unique influenza A virus infections in swine and turkeys, and the possible impact these viruses may have on current vaccination protocols in place in the US livestock industry. She remains involved in animal disease emergency planning at local, national, and global levels.