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Anticancer Discovery from Pets to People

The Anticancer Discovery from Pets to People theme works to discover novel anticancer drugs and use them to treat pet dogs and cats with naturally-occurring cancers.  Top candidates then advance to treat human cancer patients.

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Zeynep Madak-Erdogan (left) and Erik Nelson / Cancer Center at Illinois
Bioengineering professors Pablo Perez-Pinera, left, and Thomas Gaj led a team that developed a gene editing tool to treat Huntington’s disease and tested it in mice. Photo by Craig Pessman
research members, clockwise from top left: Hua Wang, Shuming Nie, Fan Lam, Timothy Fan, Matthew Berry
Ratnakar Singh, research assistant professor of comparative biosciences, and Michael Spinella (ACPP/EIRH), professor of comparative biosciences,
Cross sections of breast tumors showing that myeloid cells (green) are able to express the gene ABCA1 (red), which helps activate cancer-fighting properties. Other types of cells are labeled with blue.
Erik Nelson (left) and Postdoctoral researcher Natalia Krawczynska