CSU’s Animal Science Breaks New Ground

In 2011 Steven Dow and researchers in his laboratory at Colorado State University were studying drugs expected to block vaccine responses in mice.

But the results surprised them.

Instead of suppressing vaccines’ effectiveness, the drugs actually enhanced vaccine immunity, providing new insights into the way vaccine responses actually were being regulated.

That “chance discovery,” Dow said, has stimulated a new line of research for his lab at CSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Science, testing how drugs that target a class of white blood cells known as monocytes can be used to boost cancer and vaccine treatments.

After early…