Unveiling Nature's Clues: Animal Cancers as a Gateway to Understanding Human Biology with Mike-Andrew Westhoff

In this episode, Dr. Uta Schmidt-Straßburger meets Prof. Dr.
Mike-Andrew Westhoff, a basic researcher in the Department of
Pediatrics of Ulm University and lecturer of the Advanced
Oncology study program to discuss some of his previous works.


The full article is found here: https://www.thno.org/v11p6682.htm


 


In this paper, not only a short history of cancer and cancer
research is delineated but more so the possibilities that come
with observational and comparative biology.


Do you know how many copies of the (in)famous tumor
suppressor protein TP53 an elephant has (the answer is in the
paper)?

What can we learn from dog oncology for transplantation
medicine (the answer is in the podcast)?



 


Tune in to learn more.


 


Unfortunately, we cannot grant professor Westhoff his biggest
wish, a whale observatory in Ulm. Still, we cross our fingers for
any of his research proposals to receive funding that explores
the possibilities of comparing certain cancers in animals in
order to understand the human ones better.


 


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