When a good Samaritan found Penelope in ditch after being hit by a car, a team of specialists at the VMC met to examine Penelope and create a plan. A mere six days after her accident she was released from the hospital.
Yankee — a unique doberman-corgi mix — has become something of an icon at the CVM’s Clinical Investigation Center (CIC), where his “mom” Sara Pracht is a lead research study technician specialist. She’s worked at the CIC since 2006.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine are expanding immunotherapy to better seek and destroy tumor cells — in both dogs and humans.
There’s a story Kayla Sample, ’18 DVM, likes to tell from her undergraduate years that exemplifies the power of community veterinary medicine. Sample was volunteering with a student-run free veterinary clinic when she met a homeless woman, “Dee,” and Dee’s dog Buddy.
