dogs

“And if you correlate cancer with aging, the dogs after the age of even five, the probability of cancer goes way up.”

“Veterinary medicine has not had the resources, and even from the NIH level, what the mouse has been very well characterized and studied, the dog really hasn't.”

“Dogs that have natural disease, spontaneous disease, have an immune system also that's working, and that's a radical difference from the mice models that are much more engineered and sometimes don't have an immune system to have the cancer, and then the ones t…”

“Six million cases a year of diagnosed cancer in the United States in dogs.”

“The whole message that really I walked away from that conference with was that if we now embedded into the drug development process for human drug development a better understanding of how those drugs performed in dogs, we could save many tens of millions of d…”

“So there's much more conserved biology between dog and human than mouse and human.”

“For example, the Soviets, they trained dogs to run under tanks, enemy tanks, and they had explosives attached to them, and they were meant to blow up the tanks. And a bunch of things went wrong. So, first of all, they had trained the dogs on their own tank, Wh…”