A new study links cigarette smoke exposure to an exponentially higher rate of bladder cancer in Scottish terriers. Lead researcher Deborah Knapp, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Oncology and the Dolores L. McCall Professor of Veterinary Medicine, tracked a cohort of 120 Scottish terriers over a three-year period. Knapp and her team found that dogs exposed to cigarette smoke were six times more likely to develop bladder cancer than those that were not.
Purdue will serve as mentor to the University of Oklahoma in translating research into products and processes as part of the first round of awards in the National Science Foundation’s Accelerating Research Translation program.
A personal tragedy made one nurse practitioner realize that, with a degree from Purdue Global Law School, she would be in a unique position to help her patients at their most vulnerable. Now she’s sharing her story.
