Experimental Therapeutics

At the CSU Animal Cancer Center the Experimental Therapeutics Program is devoted to the discovery of new drug therapies against targeted against cancer. The overall goal is to design new, more effective and specific therapies with less toxicity, targeted for individualized therapy and to move these discoveries from the laboratory bench to the patient. In addition this research focuses on understanding mechanisms of and how to overcome drug resistant cancers. This is done through hypothesis-driven research that identifies and validates molecular targets and then works on developing new biological therapies and drug agents through collaborations with medicinal chemists and other scientists.

These experimental agents are then further investigated in pre-clinical trials in rodent models and clinical trials in dogs with spontaneously occurring tumors in dogs.