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Amazing Grace: World Class Survivor

Christopher Mariani

Dr. Chris Mariani in blue scrubs and purple gloves kneels behind a white dog and examines him.

Nov 5, 2025

NC State Neurologist Adapts Human Laser Therapy for Use in Dogs with Brain Cancer

A complicated, years-long project led by an NC State professor of veterinary neurology and neurosurgery and a former Duke University professor of neurosurgery has opened a pathway for more advanced brain cancer research and treatment for both humans and dogs.  For the first time, Dr. Christopher Mariani and his team successfully employed laser interstitial thermal…

Aug 20, 2021

Varying Immune Cell Levels in Canine Brain Tumors Could Provide Therapeutic Targets

The research, the most extensive examination of immune cell infiltration in canine glioma to date, adds to the body of evidence that these brain tumors might recruit cells that aid in immunosuppression.
doctor holding baby goat

Jun 1, 2016

Amazing Grace: World Class Survivor

Large animal intern Sarah Blackwell was on duty when little Grace was admitted to the Equine and Farm Animal Veterinary Center at NC State Veterinary Hospital. “She was comatose and unresponsive,” Dr. Blackwell recalls...