Veterinary Geroscience
While veterinary medicine has many specialty areas in common with human medicine, veterinary geroscience is not, as of yet, well-defined. The research team at the Dog Aging Project aims to define the aging phenotype in companion dogs and develop interventions to help companion dogs stay healthy and vigorous until late in life.
Supporting clients in the Dog Aging Project
If you are a primary care veterinarian and your client is part of our research study, we will be relying on you to help provide some of the key data we collect from our participants.
Our team disseminates our research findings to the broader veterinary community through publications in top veterinary journals and frequent presentations at regional and national conferences.
Veterinary professionals like you are key partners in our scientific study.
WHAT TO EXPECT
- Your client will ask you to provide veterinary electronic medical records, which they will upload themselves into their personal research portal at the Dog Aging Project.
- Depending on the specific study cohort in which your client is enrolled, they may ask you for help collecting biological samples for analysis in Dog Aging Project labs. For more detailed information, please refer to our FAQ for veterinarians.
- Your client may ask you to help complete a Chronic Disease Inventory. This survey collects information about chronic health conditions experienced by the dog. Our team uses this information to construct a multimorbidity index.
- If you have questions for our team or need assistance with any of these tasks, please contact us
WANT TO KNOW MORE?
Supporting our clinical trial, TRIAD
- Do you want to help future generations of dogs live healthier, longer lives?
- Would you like to contribute to research on rapamycin in aging dogs?
- Are you near a TRIAD site or know anyone who is?
Our clinical trial participants have told us that the top way they heard about TRIAD is through a veterinarian. Here are some ways you can help spread the word so we can enroll more dogs:
- Distribute TRIAD postcards to clients with potentially eligible dogs. We provide the postcards.
- Share information on your social media, in a client newsletter, or through other community channels. We provide templates to make it easy.
- Talk with or present TRIAD information to local dog clubs, groups, or organizations. We’ll supply resources and slides.
Big data, big discoveries
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