Guidelines for Submitting Grant Applications
About
About The Puppy Up Foundation (herein referred to as ‘The Foundation’) was established to fund comparative and translational cancer studies that can potentially benefit both pets and people as well as invest in national education and awareness initiatives about the epidemic of cancer in companion animals.
Grants Awarded
University of Illinois in collaboration with University of Wisconsin – Madison and Ohio State University
Sensitization of macroscopic pulmonary osteosarcoma metastases to conventional doxorubicin therapy with synchronous pulsatile oral PAC-1
Grants Awarded: $100,000
University of Missouri
Demethylating Agents in Conjunction with Cytotoxic Chemotherapy in Canine Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma
Grants Awarded: $97,000
Purdue University
Improving Molecularly-Targeted Cancer Therapy in Pet Dogs and Humans
Grants Awarded: $100,000
University of Wisconsin, Madison
The analgesic and systemic immune response to stereotactic radiation therapy in canine osteosarcoma.
Grants Awarded: $96,000
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Developing the molecular tools and evaluation of NK immunotherapy canine osteosarcoma.
Grants Awarded: $100,000
Princeton University for The Canine Mammary Tumor Program
Title of Project: “Molecular Study of Canine Mammary Tumor Development And Progression: From Genome To Clinical Outcome”
The project treats shelter dogs with mammary tumors and then studies tissues to understand how breast cancer metastasizes in women.
Grants Awarded since 2012: $172,000
Principle Researcher: Olga Troyanskaya
Animal Medical Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Title of Study: Locoregional (Intra-arterial) Chemotherapy Delivery for Urogenital Cancer
Grant Awarded 2013: $80,000
Principle Investigator: Chick Weisse, VMD, DACVS
Title of Study: Locoregional (Intra-arterial) Chemotherapy Delivery for Urogenital Cancer
Grant Awarded: $80,000
Principle Investigator: Chick Weisse, VMD, DACVS
Staff Veterinarian-Interventional Radiology/Surgery
Director, Interventional Radiology
Animal Medical Center
Title of Study: Osteosarcoma
Title of Study: Osteosarcoma
Grant Awarded: $20,000
Principal Investigator: Kerstin Lindblad-Toh
Scientific Director of Vertebrate Genome Biology at the Broad Institute
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Title of Study: Mast Cell Tumors
Grant Awarded: $20,000
Principal Investigator: Kerstin Lindblad-Toh
Scientific Director of Vertebrate Genome Biology at the Broad Institute
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Educational Grants
Grant Awarded: $5,000
American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM)
1997 Wadsworth Blvd.
Lakewood, CO 80214-5293
ACVIM Educational Conference
The Application Process and Format
Applications must be received by December 31, 2019 and awards will be announced June 30, 2020 by the Scientific Advisory Board. We will consider applications submitted by DVMs, PhDs, and MDs.
For information about submitting your application, please review the grant application guidelines and submission process.
Scientific Advisory Committee
Our Scientific Advisory Committee was formed this year and consists of the following members:
- Craig Clifford, DVM, MS, DACVIM
- Chick Weisse VMD, DACVS
- Carolyn J. Henry DVM MS DACVIM
- Nicole Ehrhart, VMD, Diplomate ACVS
- David M. Ruslander, DVM, DACVIM (Oncology), DACVR ( Radiation Oncology)
