A component of these research activities, the Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research (CCMTR) is a community of more than 100 scientists who are involved in collaborative studies with government, private, and other academic researchers to advance the knowledge and practical applications that improve animal and human health. The CCMTR has eight research cores—allergic diseases, biostatistics, clinical genomics, comparative neurobiology, emerging and zoonotic diseases, mucosa pathophysiology, oncology, and stem cells[9]—and focuses on taking knowledge from the laboratory to patient bedside, with an emphasis on diseases common to animals and humans.