"The gift is one of the largest in the university's history, and the largest ever for veterinary medicine worldwide, according to the news release. Two-thirds of the funds will go toward building a new small animal teaching hospital, which will allow the current facility to serve an additional 20,000 animals on top of the 50,000 it already treats each year. The hospital will also integrate artificial intelligence and precision medicine to improve diagnostics and allow for more clinical trials."
"The remaining $40 million will bolster UC Davis's research into health and disease across species, focused on illnesses that affect humans as well as animals, including cancer, neurological disorders and cardiovascular conditions. For example, stem-cell research on bulldog puppies with spina bifida has allowed surgeons to treat the condition in developing human fetuses."
""UC Davis is home to one of the world's most outstanding veterinary schools and many of the brightest minds in animal and human medicine," said Sandy Weill, a long-serving member of the UC Davis Chancellor's Board of Advisors. "We are proud to support an institution where groundbreaking research and compassionate care are prioritized together, and where discovery benefits both animal and human health.""
UC Davis received a $120 million gift from Joan and Sanford I. Weill. Two-thirds of the gift will fund a new small animal teaching hospital, enabling the current facility to treat an additional 20,000 animals annually above its present 50,000 caseload. The hospital will incorporate artificial intelligence and precision medicine to improve diagnostics and expand clinical trial capacity. The remaining $40 million will support research on health and disease across species, targeting cancer, neurological and cardiovascular conditions that affect humans and animals. Stem-cell work on bulldog puppies with spina bifida informed fetal treatments in humans. The school was renamed the UC Davis Weill School of Veterinary Medicine.
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