The Cures
Hope and care would offer little comfort without cures. At the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, it is the search for new cures that feeds our creative, scientific, and inquisitive energies, and the success of existing cures that enables us to care for ourselves and our animals today.
The College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences has benefited from the efforts of visionary thinkers since its founding in the 1800s. Thanks to their tireless efforts and personal resilience, the College is home today to the world-renowned Robert and Mary Flint Animal Cancer Center, the Arthropod-Borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory, the Mycobacterium Research Laboratory, the Gail Holmes Orthopaedic Research Center, and the Colorado Diagnostic Laboratory. The College is a leader in the advancement of small animal medicine including the fields of cardiology, oncology, orthopaedics, pain management, alternative medicine, and more. Innovative equine and agricultural animal medical programs are changing the way health, disease, and injury in large animals are managed. Human health is advanced through laboratories that focus on some of the most devastating diseases of our time including tuberculosis, malaria, leprosy, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, cancer, West Nile virus, and more.
Each year, the College graduates some of the most highly trained and qualified veterinarians, biomedical researchers, and health professionals in the world. They are our future. They will provide the new knowledge we need to move forward in the worlds of science and medicine to advance animal and human health.
It takes private investment to make The Cures a reality.
"It was the middle of the night when I took Fancy to the Veterinary Teaching Hospital. Fancy had been sick, and I had gone out to buy a horse trailer that day, just in case I did need to take him in for treatment sometime. When I checked on Fancy again, his condition had become dramatically worse. My veterinarian said that getting Fancy to CSU immediately was his only chance to live.
"Fancy spent 13 days in critical care. He had a veterinary student or doctor with him 24 hours a day. Not just around, but in the stall making sure that tubes and cords didn't get tangled or pulled out and monitoring Fancy's vital signs. He made a lot of friends at CSU. The students learned a lot from Fancy because they had to do so much and because Fancy was pretty easy to treat. He was very patient and gentle.
"Fancy is a very special horse. He is just one of those horses you meet that makes an impact on your life. Fancy has touched a lot of lives. He changed my life and gave me a new appreciation for simpler things. Every day is a joy because of Fancy, and I couldn't imagine losing him. What they did at CSU, the way they handled Fancy, was pretty miraculous. Their technical expertise and the extraordinary care they gave him saved Fancy's life. He was treated like a $1 million race horse – to me, he's worth so much more."
Fancy recovered from his near-fatal bout with colitis and returned to his ranch west of Boulder, Colorado. He has since been under treatment for laminitis and once again is on the road to recovery. Mr. Stevens hopes to be able to ride Fancy in the spring, but if not, Fancy will continue on as his constant companion. He has since purchased a second horse that made him realize how good Fancy made him look as a rider. Riding lessons are making up for his lack of skill, which never seemed to bother Fancy, who was quite adept at filling in the blanks.
