Feline superheroes assemble to investigate tummy trouble
The Feline Cancer Core, a multidisciplinary CSU team has joined forces to find answers to a question that has vexed animal owners and clinicians alike: Is it cancer or is it IBD?
The Feline Cancer Core, a multidisciplinary CSU team has joined forces to find answers to a question that has vexed animal owners and clinicians alike: Is it cancer or is it IBD?
VIDEO: Dr. Nicole Ehrhart of Colorado State University gives an update on her work and her thoughts on collaboration during the 4th Annual Vail Scientific Summit.
In training the algorithm, James Zou, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical data science at Stanford University, collaborated with the College of Veterinary Medicine at Colorado State University, where a group of veterinary experts annotated more than 100,000 clinical notes, assigning disease codes to each case.
Called comparative or translational oncology, this field is different from traditional animal research in laboratory rodents in a few ways, says Dr. Kristen Weishaar, a veterinarian and clinical trials director at the Flint Animal Cancer Center at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.
VIDEO: After finding a veterinarian in Fort Collins at Colorado State University, Shane lost part of his nose to cancer but survived -- and now, he has a new purpose.
Nearly 200 people attended Zoobiquity Colorado, a national meeting on regenerative medicine advances.
Mather found herself at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, boasting one of the nation's premier veterinary research hospitals. If she were to find an answer to Taz's illness, it would be at CSU.
According to Rodney Page, DVM, a veterinarian and director of the Flint Animal Cancer Center, the sorts of cancers that dogs get — skin cancer, breast cancer, lymphoma — mimic the cancers that humans develop.
Nicole Ehrhart’s mother continually told her she could be anything she wanted when she grew up. “It didn’t occur to me that I would have limits,” said Ehrhart, a veterinary surgeon at Colorado State University.
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.