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Elizabeth Pluhar, D.V.M., Ph.D., and Stephen Haines, M.D., perform surgery on Batman the dog.
U of M develops
experimental therapy for dog with brain cancer
University researchers collaborated on a new experimental treatment for a dog with an aggressive brain cancer. If the procedure works, it could have significant importance for improving treatment for brain tumors in animals and people. The procedure involved surgically removing as much of the tumor as possible, followed by the injection of a gene therapy. The injection primes the remaining cancer cells for receiving a vaccine, which will be developed from tumor tissue removed during surgery. Masonic Cancer Center researcher John Ohlfest, Ph.D., provided the gene therapy and will create the vaccine.
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Visitors looked at tissue samples during last year's State Fair.
Visit us at the State Fair!
Masonic Cancer Center and Center for Prostate Cancer faculty, staff, and friends will provide information about cancer from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, August 25— Senior and Kids Day—at the Minnesota State Fair. Visitors will be able to pick up educational materials, take a cancer quiz, and compare healthy tissue samples with tissues affected by cancer.
Masonic Cancer Center
pilot awards announced
The Masonic Cancer Center Internal Grants Program recently announced the recipients of its pilot awards. The awards foster the development of novel cancer research ideas with the goal that the researchers receiving the grants will eventually be awarded national peer-reviewed funding. View a list of the awardees and their projects.