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COLLABORATION ACROSS THE STATE:
Gates Center will co-host Zoobiquity Colorado: Connecting Human and Animal Health through Regenerative Medicine in October 2018
In fall 2017, Dean Stetter of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State University approached the Gates Center for Regenerative Medicine regarding the intriguing possibility of co-hosting a Zoobiquity conference in October 2018. Researchers at CSU and CU Anschutz already have ongoing collaborations involving natural animal models that include clinical trials at the CSU’s James L. Voss Veterinary Teaching Hospital and multiple studies in the CU Cancer Center and the Gates Center for Regenerative Medicine. Co-hosting a conference, suggested Dr. Stetter, would give us an opportunity to highlight the laboratory and clinical research of human and veterinary investigators and foster ongoing and future collaborations.
Coined by Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers in their 2012 book, “Zoobiquity: The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health,” zoobiquity comes from the Greek for “animal,” zo, and the Latin for “everywhere,” ubique.
Animals and humans share the planet, and they have many illnesses in common: cancer, arthritis, organ failure, injuries, and toxicities. In the past, the art and science of medicine
was practiced across species because human and domestic animals were so co-dependent. But as humans have lived farther from their livestock and food-source wildlife, a gulf opened between veterinary medicine and human medicine. Zoobiquity seeks to bridge that gulf. Founded in 2011, Zoobiquity Conferences are designed to bring together leading clinicians and scientists in human and veterinary medicine to discuss the same diseases in a wide spectrum of animal species and human beings. The intention of this cross-disciplinary conference is to create conversations and relationships between human and veterinary colleagues confronted with similar clinical challenges. By crossing disciplines in this way, we can significantly expand the perspective of clinicians, scientists and patients about these shared disorders and broader health concerns.
Zoobiquity Colorado, cohosted by the Gates Center and the veterinary college at CSU, is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, Oct. 5 and 6. It will feature a half day field trip to Fort Collins and a tour of the CSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital and research laboratories, followed by a full day of case presentations and panel discussions on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Denver. Busing between campuses, meals and receptions will be provided. For further information, please contact Jill Cowperthwaite at jill.cowperthwaite@ucdenver. edu or 303 724-6143. To register, consult the conference website at www.Zoobiquity.colostate.edu
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