Our Story

The Comparative Oral Oncology Laboratory was founded by Dr. Santiago Peralta and Dr. William Katt in the spring of 2022. The goal was simple – bring together the incredible power of the faculty at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine to advance the biological understanding of oral cancer, and to develop new treatment approaches of benefit to both humans and companion animals. Since then, we’ve grown! The COOL now includes over a half dozen faculty, dozens of trainees, and an incredible support network of staff, administrators, and incredibly generous donors. We are publishing multiple studies every year, running clinical trials, and shrinking tumors. It’s been an incredible story, and we hope to keep writing it for many years to come.

People

Leadership

Jacquelyn Evans, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Baker Institute for Animal Health

William Katt, PhD
Senior Research Associate
Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences

Santiago Peralta, DVM, AVDC
Associate Professor & Diplomate – American Veterinary Dental College
Department of Clinical Sciences

Praveen Sethupathy, PhD
Professor of Physiological Genomics
Chair
Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences

Affiliated Researchers

Richard Cerione, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Arts and Science in Chemistry
Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences

Chris Champion, BVSc, DACVP
Assistant Professor
Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences

Gerald Duhamel, DVM, PhD, DACVP
Professor of Anatomic Pathology
Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences

Andrew White, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences

Collaborators