Success Story

Since 1995, the AKC Canine Health Foundation (CHF) and its donors have invested more than $60 million in over 1,000 research and educational grants and canine health projects. The results have been published in over 850 peer-reviewed publications and cited more than 34,000 times, demonstrating the impact and relevance of their funded studies.

Thanks to the support of many dog lovers, over the past two and a half decades, CHF:

• spearheaded research and publication of the first genetic linkage map of the canine genome, leading the way for the complete canine genome map,

• collaborated on creation of the Canine Comparative Oncology and Genomics Consortium (CCOGC), a repository of canine tumor tissues and other biologic specimens to facilitate comparative cancer research and hasten discoveries to benefit both canine and human cancer patients,

• started the Search & Rescue Dog Health Fund to study the health of search and rescue dogs deployed in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks,

• established educational grants to support the next generation of clinical researchers and canine reproductive medicine and clinical genetics specialists,

• provided funding for studies that discovered the underlying genetic mutations for diseases such as exercise-induced collapse, cystinuria, stationary night blindness, Von Willebrand’s Disease,

• and much more.