His position is divided between doing research in his laboratory, providing clinical services to companion animals with cancer and teaching the graduate students at the College of Veterinary Medicine. From 2000 to 2007, he focused on completing his doctorate from the University in Tumor Immunology, and has been involved in the College of Veterinary Medicine for about 20 years. Fan’s most recent study was published in 2016 and looked into a nanoparticle chemotherapeutic treatment for bone cancer that naturally occurs in dogs.