Nicola Mason
University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine, USA
Biography
Nicola Mason is a graduate of the Royal Veterinary College, London and is board certified in Veterinary Internal Medicine. She earned her PhD in Immunology from the University of Pennsylvania where she performed her Post-doctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Carl June. She is an Associate Professor, the Pamela Cole Chair in Companion Animal Medicine and Associate Director of the Mari Lowe Center for Comparative Oncology in the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine. Her research focuses on developing immune therapeutic approaches to effectively target cancer and prevent metastatic disease in companion dogs, with the ultimate goal of identifying and accelerating successful therapies into the human and veterinary clinics. Her lab is currently focused on two main therapeutic strategies, recombinant listeria-based technologies and chimeric antigen receptor T cells (CAR-T) for canine osteosarcoma, lymphoma and hemangiosarcoma.