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Dr. María Verónica Brignone is a Vet from Argentina, who has collected CTVT tumour biopsies from dogs in Argentina and hosted a visit from a TCG PhD at Argentina previously. During her 2 weeks visit in September, Maria extracted genomic DNA from these CTVT samples and performed PCR analysis for genetic analysis to determine how CTVT in Argentina di…

Many congratulations to Adrian Baez-Ortega's new paper published on Science 2nd August 2019!"Somatic evolution and global expansion of an ancient transmissible cancer lineage"Well done Adrian and the team!Here are some links to the news about the paper:https://www.cam.ac.uk/caninecancerhttps://www.wired.com/story/how-a-6000-year-old-dog-cancer-spre…

Congratulations to Adrian Baez-Ortega , who has been awarded the 2019 Canine Health Awards Postgraduate Student Inspiration Award from the Kennel Club. Adrian will receive £10,000, which he will use to support research on CTVT. Find more information about the award here.

TCG science has recently featured in several books and news articles. An article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung profiled Elizabeth Murchison and her research on transmissible cancers. Transmissible cancers, and TCG science, were covered in Carl Zimmer's new book on heredity She has her mother's laugh. Máire Ní Leathlobhair's recent paper on the origin …

Sarah Cox, a pre-clinical Cambridge vet student who performed a summer project at TCG has been awarded a BBSRC studentship.The UK Veterinary Summer Studentship Programme aims to inspire UK veterinary undergraduates to consider a career in research by funding summer studentships to be undertaken in world-class research environments in any BBSRC elig…

This summer, TCG members Elizabeth Murchison, Max Stammnitz, Young Mi Kwon and Kevin Gori spent a few weeks in Tasmania performing Tasmanian devil field work. They joined devil trapping trips in the Channel Peninsula, where both DFTDs (DFT1 and DFT2) are present, and in the Freycinet Peninsula on Tasmania's East Coast. They saw many devils, both he…

Soheil Afshari, a student at the Department of Veterinary Medicine, Garmsar University, Iran, recently visited TCG from 9th July – 23rd July, 2018.Soheil collected CTVT tumour biopsies from dogs in Iran. During his visit, Soheil extracted genomic DNA from these CTVT samples, performed PCR and genetic analysis to determine how CTVT in Iran differs f…

Many congratulations to Maire Ní Leathlobhair's paper "The evolutionary history of dogs in the Americas" published on Science!

New research from TCG reveals that the canine transmissible venereal tumour (CTVT) first emerged from a dog that was closely related to an intriguing group of ancient North American dogs. The research, published in Science, reports that dogs arrived into North America together with people more than 10,000 years ago. By sequencing ancient DNA from d…

Our collaborator from South Africa, Mirjam van der Wel, gave a presentation "Canine transmissible venereal tumours" at the EASTERN CAPE VETERINARY CONGRESS on 4th of May 2018. It was well received by the audience and we are grateful that M. is spreading the knowledge of CTVT and our research amongst the clinical veterinary audience. Thank you for y…

Our collaborator from South Africa, Mirjam van der Wel, gave a presentation at EASTERN CAPE VETERINARY CONGRESS in Port Elizabeth on the 4th of May 2018. It was well received by the audience and we are grateful that Mirjam is spreading the knowledge of CTVT and our research amongst the clinical veterinary audience. Thank you for your enthusiasm, an…

TCG member, Máire Ní Leathlobhair, recently returned from a field trip to Argentina. Máire's trip was funded by a Santander Mobility grant awarded by the University of Cambridge. In Argentina, she worked with vets and researchers based at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) as well as the Catholic University of Córdoba (UCC), to collect samples an…

Many congratulations to Maximilian R. Stammnitz's new paper published on Cancer Cell, April 9, 2018!!http://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/pdfExtended/S1535-6108(18)30117-XWell done Max and everyone!!BBC NewsTasmanian devil cancers targeted by human drugshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-43698885Cambridge University Research NewsHuman a…

Mr. Juan Carlos Ramirez Ante from University of Caldas, Colombia, came to visit TCG for two weeks in January 2018. Juan is a Veterinarian and currently doing his Master degree at Professor Francisco Pedraza's group at University of Caldas.  Professor Pedraza and Juan are collaborators of our ongoing CTVT projects and had sent us hundreds of CTVT sa…

Elizabeth Murchison has been elected as part of the 2017 intake of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme for young European researchers in life sciences.