Graham Rahal announced two $100,000 donations this week from his charitable foundation, with the money to benefit military veterans and the Colorado State University Animal Cancer Center. Another impressive gesture from the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing driver who has shown his dedication to worthy causes many times over.
As part of a partnership with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Letterman and Indy car legend Bobby Rahal visited the Flint Animal Cancer Center at CSU’s James L. Voss Veterinary Teaching Hospital Tuesday, July 24, to learn more about cancer in animals.
Code 3 Associates also provides training to conduct thorough investigations into animal welfare issues, all of which is accredited by Colorado State University and the school’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital.
Three sites—Colorado State University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of California, Davis—plan to inoculate 800 middle-aged dogs for Johnston’s new study.
Driver Jay Howard’s car is sporting a green-and-black paint scheme, with the familiar Rams’ head Colorado State University logo prominently displayed on the front and along both sides. It’s part of a sponsorship deal, arranged and paid for by an anonymous donor, to promote the university’s One Cure project for cancer research
CSU researcher Jesse Wilson is accelerating research to improve imaging and detection of melanoma, and his Young Investigator Award from the Melanoma Research Alliance will open the door to partnering with the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences to test new imaging applications on canine patients.
The National Cancer Institute runs a network of 24 academic research institutes, including Tufts’, across the country to share information from comparative clinical trials. There are comparative clinical trial programs at Tufts, Penn, Ohio State, Colorado State University, and the University of California at Davis, among others.
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Dogs within 150 miles of the University of California-Davis, Colorado State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison may participate, said Douglas Thamm, a veterinary oncologist at CSU who will lead the study.