COHA Film Festival
November 3rd is One Health Day, with the goal of bringing attention to the need for One Health and to ‘see it in action’. Accordingly, we are holding a COHA ‘Film Festival’ to showcase the great One Health work being done by the 17 COHA veterinary schools in partnership with medical and other colleagues through a National Institutes of Health-sponsored Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA).
COHA pilot leads to fantastic Small Animal Antimicrobial Stewardship Workshop
On August 24 and 25, 2023, 70 representatives from 23 US veterinary colleges, 3 veterinary industry partners, and 2 government agencies, convened at the University of Minnesota for the Inaugural Small Animal Antimicrobial Stewardship Workshop.
Congratulations to our 2023 COHA Translational Research Fellows
Please welcome our final cohort of 3 COHA Translational Research Fellows, who will begin training in fall 2023.
Denver Gazette Article: ‘Colorado Doctors Have a Pack Mentality’
An article published on March 21, 2021, in the Denver Gazette by Joey Bunch describes the impactful, translational cancer research in dogs taking place at Colorado State University’s Flint Animal Cancer Center .
The V Foundation Awards $1.5 Million to Canine Comparative Oncology Research
The V Foundation for Cancer Research, a top-rated cancer research charity, has awarded three Comparative Oncology Research Consortium (CORC) grants of $500,000 each.
Can a Human Drug Stop Life-Threatening Bleeding in Dogs with Traumatic Injuries?
Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine is part of a multi-institution study to assess if a new field treatment would benefit military working dogs—and maybe someday pets in hemorrhagic shock.
Veterinary biobank is first accredited under new global standard
After years of planning and months of implementation, the Cornell Veterinary Biobank has achieved international accreditation under a new global standard, making it the first biobank of any type to earn such a distinction.
Helping Dogs—and Humans—with Cancer: NCI’s Comparative Oncology Studies
Since 2003, NCI has been using information from studies of canine cancer to help guide studies of human cancer and vice versa—a field known as comparative oncology.
Pigs Offer an Improved Animal Model for Studying Recovery from Stroke
Researchers at the University of Georgia and Emory University have developed a new therapy that may hasten the recovery of patients who have suffered a stroke.
New Treatment for Dogs with Spinal Cord Disease May Offer New Insight into Possible Cures for Humans with ALS
Veterinarians at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University are currently evaluating a new drug to treat dogs with degenerative myelopathy, a disease similar to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).