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    Newly Identified Gene Deletion in Standard Poodles Sheds Light on Severe Vision Disorder

    Inherited retinal diseases form a broad and complex group of genetic conditions that cause progressive vision loss and blindness. Dogs, like humans, are susceptible to many such disorders. Because of…

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    Penn Vet’s Nicola Mason, BVetMed, PhD, DACVIM, FRCVS, Receives Penn Center for Innovation’s Inventor of the Year Award

    The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) congratulates Dr. Nicky Mason, the Paul A. James and Charles A. Gilmore Endowed Chair Professor and Professor of Medicine…

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    Comforting Philanthropy

    At Penn Vet’s Ryan Hospital, world-class clinical care is matched with deep compassion for animals and the people who love them.

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    Dogs with cancer are helping save lives—both canine and human (link is external)

    The Comparative Immunotherapy Program led by Penn Vet’s Nicola Mason is redefining how therapies are developed and tested—uniting human and veterinary medicine to move promising immunotherapies forward.

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    New genetic cause of blindness in dogs (link is external)

    In collaboration with a foundation that breeds service dogs for the visually impaired, researchers at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Padova…

    Study shows promise for iNKT cell platform to treat cancer (link is external)

    Researchers from the School of Veterinary Medicine and Perelman School of Medicine have shown that invariant natural killer T cells from a healthy donor can persist in MHC-mismatched canines, demonstrating…

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