Assistant Professor, Surgical Oncology
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado
Brandan graduated from the University of Pretoria in 2007. Following this he worked in a private small animal hospital in Johannesburg for 2 years and completed a post-graduate degree from the University of Pretoria with focus in small animal surgery in 2009. Brandan moved to the UK in 2010 and completed a general rotating internship and surgery residency, including a year as a research assistant in Prof. John Innes’s lab, at the University of Liverpool in 2015. After his residency he joined the soft tissue surgery team at Liverpool as a lecturer. In 2016, Brandan moved to Colorado State University and completed an ACVS accredited surgical oncology fellowship at the world-renowned Flint Animal Cancer Center. In 2017, he joined Texas A&M University as a surgical oncologist. He was recruited back to Colorado State University in 2020 where he is currently an Assistant Professor of Surgical Oncology. Brandan also holds appointments as an Extraordinary Lecturer in the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Pretoria where he supports post-graduate surgery teaching and is a clinical member of the University of Colorado Cancer Center, School of Medicine.
Brandan is a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Surgeons, a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Specialist in Surgical Oncology, holder of a certificate in Genetics and Genomics from Stanford University, and a researcher in the Colorado State University’s Laboratory of Musculoskeletal Oncology and Traumatology. His research interests are epigenetic drivers in soft tissue sarcoma, development of the canine as a research model of sarcoma, and molecular oncology.
Thursday, October 13, 2022
10:15am – 10:45am
Thursday, October 13, 2022
10:45am – 11:30am
Friday, October 14, 2022
10:00am – 11:00am