The Penn-CHOP CTSA Program in Comparative Animal Biology (PICAB) announces a pilot grant program between veterinary and human medicine to advance translational therapeutics. The purpose is to use naturally occurring domestic animal models of disease that are sufficiently similar to human diseases as a means to evaluate potential feasibility of novel treatments.

Many naturally occurring diseases in domestic animals are sufficiently similar to human diseases that they can be used to evaluate the feasibility of novel treatments. The emphasis is on molecular medicine approaches to therapy (gene therapy, stem cells, recombinant proteins) with the goal of generating sufficient preliminary data to support extramural grant applications. These proposals require co-PIs from the veterinary and the medical faculty (PSOM or CHOP). Two pilot grants of up to $45,000 each is available start date of February 1, 2019. Grants are due at noon on Friday, December 7, 2018.

Investigators who would like advice on potential partners in the other school may contact Dr. John H. Wolfe via Emily Romick at 215-590-7030 or emromick@vet.upenn.edu.

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