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Each day, the Animal Cancer Center at Colorado State University improves the lives of families and their companion animals battling cancer. You too can be part of our team by making a gift to one of our support funds listed below. Every dollar makes a difference.

Kari’s Fund:  Endowment to Support Animal Cancer Center General Operations

Kari's Fund is the heart and soul of the Animal Cancer Center, supporting the annual costs of our core operational, educational, and research initiatives. As an endowed fund, the principal remains invested and only the earned interest generated by Kari's Fund will be used on an annual basis to pay ongoing, recurring costs associated with an internationally renowned cancer research and treatment effort. Kari's Fund must reach 10 million dollars in order to cover those costs which amount to nearly a half million dollars each year. Today, we are more than half way to our goal.

Thanks to an anonymous donor, your gift to this fund is matched dollar for dollar and will forever ensure the viability of the Animal Cancer Center to continue to be the world leader in veterinary clinical oncology and translational cancer research.

Read more of Kari's story

Scholarships:  Animal Cancer Center Support Fund for Medical Oncology Residents and Cancer Biology Ph.D. Students

Each year, the Animal Cancer Center trains medical and radiation oncology residents, studying to be tomorrow's oncology specialists who will treat tomorrow's patients and Cancer Biology Ph.D. candidates, studying to be tomorrow's cancer researchers who will find tomorrow's cures. Our four-year training program is one of the top educational programs in the nation. But it does not come without a cost. The Center spends $200,000 per resident and up to $120,000 per Ph.D. candidate. Your gift to the Animal Cancer Center Scholarship Fund will help support the costs of training and educating these specialists to be the best doctors and scientists in cancer.

Meet our current residents and Ph.D. students

Ross Wilkins Limb Preservation Endowment to Support the Ross M. Wilkins
University Chair in Musculoskeletal Oncology

This fund will support a full-time faculty member dedicated to further developing musculoskeletal research and advancing the treatments for bone and muscle cancers for both animals and humans. Established in honor of orthopedic surgeon Ross Wilkins by the Animal Cancer Center and the Limb Preservation Foundation, the endowment has currently reached the halfway mark. Once fully funded at $3 million, the endowed chair will ensure the continuity of limb-sparring research with a stable base of financial base of support. Your gift to this fund will support a dedicated scientist/doctor committed to making a difference in the lives of animals and humans afflicted with bone and muscle cancers.

Read more of Dr. Wilkins' story