Heather R. Shive

Heather R. Shive's research uses animal models—especially zebrafish, as well as dogs and other veterinary patients—to study cancer biology, including brain tumors, sarcomas, and melanoma. The work combines pathology, genetics (such as mutations in brca2 and tp53), and tumor microenvironment analysis to understand how cancers develop and resist treatment, with some studies also addressing veterinary disease diagnosis in dogs and other animals.

Publication output has been relatively low and variable over the past decade, fluctuating between one and four papers per year without a clear sustained upward or downward trend.

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