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    Penn Vet’s Wildlife Futures Seek to Unravel the Mystery of the Disappearing Barn Owl

    Penn Vet’s Wildlife Futures Program and the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) have been engaged in a collaborative effort to identify the causes of these owls’ decline and any actions that…

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    Penn Vet’s Annual Research Retreat Calls for the Power of Synergy in Challenging Times

    Noting the challenges ahead, but celebrating the many breakthroughs at hand, the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) community gathered for their 31st annual Research Retreat held…

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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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    Behind the Breakthroughs: J. Oriol Sunyer

    J. Oriol Sunyer explores how studying the evolution of the immune system reveals surprising connections between fish and human immunity, and what these discoveries could mean for the development of…

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    From $500 Craigslist Castoff to Surprise Champion, Penn Vet’s Equine Assisted Reproduction Program Helps Create a Legacy

    Fylicia Barr was a horse crazy kid with not much money but high hopes. Sunny was a wild young mare with no training – just a load of sass and…

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    A New Penn Vet Study is Finding Where the Wild Things Are: Right Here in Philly!

    A new project, the Accessing Urban Nature Initiative (AUNI), has started capturing images of seldom seen but decidedly special city dwellers like these – and many others – with the…

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    Penn Vet’s Next Gen Biomedical Scientists Present Their Research at the Annual Veterinary Scholars Symposium

    Two dozen budding Penn Vet scientists presented a rich array of ambitious biomedical research projects at the annual Veterinary Scholars Symposium held last month in Spokane, Washington. 

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    A New Penn Vet Clinic Brings Support and Hope for Dogs with Retinal Disease

    Zoey the cockapoo greeted life with tail-wagging joy. A mass of tawny curls, she loved everyone, and they loved her back.

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    Penn Vet’s Institute for Infectious and Zoonotic Diseases Hosts Second Annual Research Retreat

    The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) School of Veterinary Medicine’s (Penn Vet) Institute for Infectious and Zoonotic Diseases (IIZD) hosted its annual Faculty Research Retreat on September 3 at the Brandywine…

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