Comparative Medicine Symposium

The excessive translational failure rates of pre-clinical laboratory animal model studies calls for alternative approaches which can better inform on the development of biomedical innovations. 

Compared to laboratory animals, companion dogs are a phenotypically diverse population which naturally develop neoplastic, cardiovascular, infectious, metabolic, neurological, orthopedic, and autoimmune diseases with similarity to humans. 

This symposium focuses on the increasingly important role of dogs and veterinary clinical studies in the development of drugs, biologics, diagnostics and devices with parallel applications for human and veterinary medicine.
 

Comparative Disease Topics:
►Canine infectious diseases and development of novel antimicrobials.
►Comparative oncology, canine cancer genomics, cancer vaccines, biomarkers for early cancer detection and the treatment landscape.
►Cardio-renal diseases of dogs and comparisons with human disease counterparts.
►The Dog Aging Project and the Arizona Canine Cognition Center.

Research and Development Topics:
►Structuring academic research collaborations with veterinary clinics.
►Overview of the veterinary market and opportunities for new drugs, biologics, devices, and diagnostics.