Full Circle

Way back in December 2009, Luke Robinson walked through Philadelphia on his journey to walk from Austin to Boston to bring awareness to canine cancer. While in Philadelphia, I introduced him to the doctors at the Penn Vet oncology program and he met with Dr. Karin Sorenmo, head of the department. At that time, she was just beginning her research on the canine cancer mammary tumor project in which she was removing mammary tumors from shelter dogs and analyzing their progression with the help of her colleague at Princeton Olga Troyanskaya.

Flash forward 3 years and on Wednesday, the anniversary of his dog Malcom's passing six years ago, Luke presented a check for $50,000 to this collaborative effort to continue funding this research.

Giant strides by man for beast and one day, women. Bravo!