IWF Sponsoring Heart Testing at IWADV Specialty
Posted Sep 01, 2010.
Once again, the IWF is sponsoring reduced-cost echocardiograms, EKGs and blood pressure screenings at the IWADV specialty in Morgantown, Pennsylvania in October.
New Membership Year Has Begun
Posted Jul 01, 2010.
Join or renew now to help us help the hounds!
The IWF at the IWCA 2010 Specialty
Posted May 24, 2010.
The IWF once again sponsored reduced-cost echocardiograms at the IWCA national specialty show. Additionally, we sponsored a talk by veterinary cardiologist Dr. William Tyrrell on Wednesday evening.
IWF Website Update
Posted May 06, 2010.
The Irish Wolfhound Foundation is pleased to present our updated website. We've worked hard to make the site a treasure trove of easily accessible information on IW health and education. Try it; we think you'll like it!
Important News about IW Studies and IW Foundation
Posted Aug 14, 2009.
I am pleased to announce that after several months of preparation The Irish Wolfhound Studies, Inc will join with The Irish Wolfhound Foundation under the banner of the IW Foundation.
All of the research projects that were funded by IW Studies will continue to receive grants from the Foundation. The web sites for both will run concurrently for a few months. Information and study entry questionnaires or links to them will be available on both sites. I will continue to handle the seizure study as before.
We believe that the breed will be better served by centralizing these research projects and resources.
— Anne Janis, August 2009
Epilepsy and Pneumonia/PCD Update
Posted Aug 04, 2009.
Dr. Margret Casal, Section of Medical Genetics,
School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
We are looking forward to a busy summer and fall of data analysis. As we write this, exciting new experiments are underway to detect DNA sequence differences at places in the dog DNA where more that one different base is known to occur in different dogs. We call sequence differences polymorphisms. The particular polymorphisms we are working with are called SNPs (pronounced "snip") for single nucleotide polymorphism. Our experiments are being performed using the recently developed "SNP chips". This work is possible through generous funding from the Irish Wolfhound Studies, Inc and with statistical support from the Penn Genomics Frontiers Institute (PGFI). A core facility within PGFI is currently performing SNP chip analysis on 300 dogs, including nearly 100 Irish Wolfhounds in the epilepsy study, using the Affymetrix 127K SNP-chip.
Please Help Us Find the Genes That Cause Irish Wolfhound Bone Cancer
Posted Aug 02, 2009.
The Irish Wolfhound Foundation is working with leading geneticists to help identify the gene(s) involved with bone cancer. We know that cancer, whether hereditary or not, is a disease of genes. But we don’t know which set of genes malfunction when an Irish Wolfhound gets osteosarcoma.
If you have a wolfhound diagnosed with bone cancer, we need a blood sample from your dog. We also need more blood samples from wolfhounds eight years of age or older who have never had any type of cancer.
