Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Supported by: Victoria Reed
Mentor: Jonathan Pollack, Pathology

Ameloblastomas are tooth bud tumors rare in humans but remarkably common in dogs. Persiana proposes to evaluate the similarities of human and canine ameloblastomas at the genetic level. If similarities can be demonstrated, then both humans and our canine companions will benefit from one another, through the collective knowledge and therapy studies done.

Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 24, 2016:

Man’s Best Model: A Genomic Comparison of Ameloblastoma in Humans and Dogs

Persiana Saffari¹, Boaz Arzi², Robert West¹, Frank Verstraete², Jonathan Pollack¹
[Department of Pathology¹, Stanford University; Department of Surgical & Radiological Sciences², University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine ]