Christina Lopez

CEO and Co-founder, The One Health Company · 1 appearance on the record.

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Christina Lopes is the co-founder and CEO of The One Health Company, creator of FidoCure. She was previously a Managing Director at Cerberus Capital Management.

9statements → 9claims → 8claims resolved → 88%fully supported → 4.11/5average certainty → 1.56/5average debate potential →

7 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

9 assertions · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 8 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Christina argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Lopez: One Health built the first NGS panel for dogs

“We have the first next gen sequencing panel for dogs.”

Christina Lopez Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 21:08 a16z Podcast | Connecting Hearts, Bodies, and Networks to Cure Cancer

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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92% certainty 4

100% certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

What they said9 Episodes1

Everything Christina Lopez said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Partly supported

Lopez: Dog Breeds Living Near Golf Courses Suffer Higher Bladder Cancer Rates

“Certain breeds near golf courses have had actually bladder cancer, transitional cell carcinoma, it's actually an area of study.”

Christina Lopez Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 2:15 a16z Podcast | Connecting Hearts, Bodies, and Networks to Cure Cancer

Assertion Supported

Lopez: One Health built the first NGS panel for dogs

“We have the first next gen sequencing panel for dogs.”

Christina Lopez Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 21:08 a16z Podcast | Connecting Hearts, Bodies, and Networks to Cure Cancer

Assertion Supported

Lopez: Canine Genomics Lacks NIH Research Funding Compared to Mouse Models

“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.”

Christina Lopez Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 2:47 a16z Podcast | Connecting Hearts, Bodies, and Networks to Cure Cancer

Assertion Supported

Lopez: Spontaneous Canine Cancers Have Intact Immune Systems Missing in Mice

“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…”

Christina Lopez Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 8:43 a16z Podcast | Connecting Hearts, Bodies, and Networks to Cure Cancer

Assertion Supported

Lopez: Canine trials saved the development of lymphoma drug ibrutinib

“And you know the story of rebrutinib, a lymphoma drug that, you know, the dog and the human, and actually the evidence from the dog helped not just this company be alive, but the drug be alive”

Christina Lopez Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 11:29 a16z Podcast | Connecting Hearts, Bodies, and Networks to Cure Cancer

Assertion Supported

Christina Lopez: Canine cancer probability increases significantly after age five

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

Christina Lopez Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 15:25 a16z Podcast | Connecting Hearts, Bodies, and Networks to Cure Cancer

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Lopez: Veterinary oncology relies on only 13 total cancer therapies

“The toolbox is probably 13 therapies in total that we were talking about with Cheryl London, one of our KOLs that's really top in canine oncology, total.”

Christina Lopez Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 17:03 a16z Podcast | Connecting Hearts, Bodies, and Networks to Cure Cancer

Assertion Supported

Lopez: US has only 400 veterinary oncologists for six million dogs

“Not everyone can get to a vet oncologist, which there's only about three, 400 in the United States for, you know, think about six million dogs, three, 400, right?”

Christina Lopez Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 17:24 a16z Podcast | Connecting Hearts, Bodies, and Networks to Cure Cancer

Assertion Supported

Lopez: 85% of dogs with bladder cancer carry V600E BRAF mutation

“85% of dogs with transitional cell carcinoma are BRAF positive, and it's V 600 E BRAF, very particular.”

Christina Lopez Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 18:48 a16z Podcast | Connecting Hearts, Bodies, and Networks to Cure Cancer

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| Connecting Hearts, Bodies, and Networks to Cure Cancer	Feb 26, 2019	10m

Christina Lopez

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