We love it when she stops by, please welcome Isaboo.
(crowd cheering)
Hey!
(crowd cheering)
Honey!
Oh my god.
Hi honey bear!
Hello honey!
Yes hello!
This is my family everyone.
This is my husband John and my baby Izzy.
(crowd cheering)
This is our kingdom appropriately named
just like our house, the Isaboo empire.
It is bring your kid to work day,
so please welcome my child, my daughter Isaboo.
(crowd cheering)
This is my buddy, yeah, my best buddy.
Kisses, kisses, yes!
(crowd cooing)
Look at my baby!
She's so beautiful, look at her little smile.
(crowd cooing)
We said goodbye to Isaboo.
But we were gifted many extra months,
years in dog time, right?
Yes.
We didn't know if we would have
her with us for Christmas and she
made it through Mother's Day,
which was a nice gift to me and my mom.
She made it to over-
My sister.
Over 15 years old.
Yes.
Which for any breed, much less a pitbull
is really, really long life for dogs.
So we wanted to share with you guys
how our dog was with us a little bit longer.
And enlighten everybody as to things
that were so new to us, things that we never
had any idea about,
as to how research for animals contributes
to research for humans in a good way.
First of all, I want to just say
how sorry I am that Isaboo passed,
but I know that she had the loves
of her life taking care of her until the very end.
So you guys did an amazing job of caring for her.
I'm a human doctor and I run a non-profit
organization called the Andrew Genesis foundation
and we started 25 years ago trying to recognize
the bridge between human health and animal health
and we really believe that we can learn a lot
about animals that can teach humans
how to be healthier and by the same token,
we can actually give from human health,
back to help animals.
And that's how I met doctor John Cana
when he was at the national cancer institute.
One of the most remarkable veterinary
oncologists out there who showed me just how powerful
this bridge can be.
We've collaborated to try to help each other
in difficult cases.
John I love that this is so beautiful,
that it comes full circle and that your
communities give to each other
and that this is how you helped prolong
our dog's life a little longer
in a beautiful way.
I believe we were using human treatment
for Isaboo in this clinical trial
which has really extended her life
and her quality of life.
There is an opportunity and maybe an imperative
to study disease across species
so that you can answer questions in one species
that you can't answer in the other.
And the similarities between the diseases
across these species lines are so strong
that the opportunity to ask these questions
in clinical trials is so important.
If people were interested in getting
their dog involved in a clinical trial
as Isaboo was and being a part of some
of these groundbreaking changes in medicine
for animals and humans, is there a direction
you can give us?
Listed on our website at ethos discovery
and so our website is a source for that information.
A family chooses not to pursue a conventional
approach to therapy, they can pursue
an innovation in clinical trial
and an innovation in therapy for their family member
and that's through clinical trials
and that's the area that doctor Lee and I
have been working on both on the human
and on the veterinary side for many years.
Isaboo was in human terms over 100.
And you both treated her as if she was
as important as a puppy or any human of any age.
It was about whether or not she was eating
or wagging her tail when daddy
would play her music or grandma would come over.
You treated her with such respect
and that gave our lives so much joy and hope.
And hope is such an important thing in these times.
We can never thank you both enough
for all that you do for people and for animals.
We appreciate you so very much.
Thank you.
It means everything to us.
(crowd cheering)