Largest preventive canine cancer vaccine trial ends

Calviri, Inc., a company spun out of Arizona State University and based in the Phoenix Bioscience Core, has announced the successful conclusion of the Vaccine Against Canine Cancer Study on May 4, a five-year clinical trial investigating a novel preventive cancer vaccine in dogs. This multi-centre, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, the largest of its kind in veterinary oncology, represents a significant milestone in the fight against canine cancer, the company said in a press release. Attempts...

Petco Love, Blue Buffalo promise $100,000 for cancer research

U.S.-based nonprofit organization Petco Love and pet food company Blue Buffalo have donated a matching gift of $100,000 to the Morris Animal Foundation’s Stop Cancer Furever campaign to support the foundation’s commitment to advance science to save animals. The foundation’s annual campaign supports critical animal cancer research, including studies to develop new diagnostic tests and treatments. Petco Love and Blue Buffalo’s donation will match donor gifts up to $100,000 during the campaign, which began on...

ELIAS Animal Health gets chief revenue officer ahead of canine cancer drug approval

ELIAS Animal Health, a leading companion animal cancer therapeutics company, announced on Wednesday the appointment of Brian Segebrecht as chief revenue officer in anticipation of the impending product approval of the ELIAS Cancer Immunotherapy (ECI) in the fourth quarter of this year. Segebrecht joins the ELIAS leadership team after leading Sentrx Animal Care as chief executive officer until last year. At the company based in Olathe, Kansas, he will lead the commercialization of the company’s...

Groundbreaking study to use AI to help cancer detection in dogs

All over the world, countless dogs cross the rainbow bridge every year with cancer. But if all goes well, a study in the USA that is leveraging artificial intelligence just might be able to create an innovative approach to detect this deadly disease early in canines, enabling in-time treatment, thus extending their lives. The cancer study in dogs, funded by the Morris Animal Foundation and the Golden Retriever Foundation, is hopeful that artificial intelligence might...