Researchers will use genetic fingerprinting methods to track and help prevent serious antibiotic-resistant staph infection outbreaks in dogs and cats.

Researchers will identify new therapy targets for malignant mast cell tumors, acommon and aggressive cancer in dogs.

Researchers will evaluate a novel drug as a potential new treatment for immunemediated hemolytic anemia, a serious and fatal blood disorder in dogs.

Researchers will investigate how metabolic processes affect tumor growth andchemotherapy resistance in dogs with hemangiosarcoma and ways to block or disrupt these processes.

Researchers will determine what causes abnormal mucus secretion in dogs resulting in gallbladder mucoceles (congealed masses of mucus that can block or rupture the gallbladder), as well as seek ways to prevent or reverse this serious condition.

Researchers will search for genetic mutations associated with inherited ocular melanosis, an eye condition that causes glaucoma and blindness in Cairn terriers.