Your support allows us to continue our vital work building connections and collaboration between human and animal medicine, for the benefit of both. In these videos you can see how similar conditions can affect us both, and similar treatments can help us both, so working together just makes sense – to avoid duplication in reserach, time and resources, and bring breakthroughs sooner for all species.

Your donation helped drive real progress. Monthly support ensures that progress never stops – helping us keep moving, discovering, and changing lives every day. Monthly donations help us commit to ambitious long-term projects like our £250,000 Cancer Discovery Fund – pioneering collaborative research that could transform cancer treatment for both humans and animals. Regular support gives researchers stability, accelerates progress and helps us plan for the future with confidence.

Humanimal Trust receives no government funding. Everything we achieve is powered by people who believe medical progress should benefit humans and animals equally. Every single contribution, no matter the size, helps us make a lasting difference for both humans and animals.

Just £3 a month could help support the next breakthrough. Setting up a monthly gift only takes a minute – but the impact could last for generations.

• Keep critical research moving forward  
• Bring breakthroughs closer, sooner  
• Change more lives – both human and animal 

Thanks to the generosity of supporters, Humanimal Trust launched the Cancer Discovery Fund in 2024 – a major milestone in advancing One Medicine cancer research.

The first funded project is a pioneering study into oronasal mucosal melanoma (OMM), a rare but aggressive cancer of the mouth and nose that behaves almost identically in humans and dogs.

This groundbreaking research is being led by experts from the University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian including Professor Kelly Blacklock, Professor E. Elizabeth Patton, and Dr Mark Stares. It aims to develop a gene-based laboratory test that could help doctors and vets identify the most effective treatment for each patient.

The impact could be life-changing. In humans, only around 15% of people survive five years after diagnosis. In dogs, average survival is less than a year. By studying this disease collaboratively across species, researchers hope to accelerate progress faster than traditional approaches ever could. Kelly Blacklock from the team delivering our Cancer Research Fund project was also the first speaker in our 2025/26 One Medicine webinar series.

The Cancer Discovery Fund exists because supporters like you chose to act. Your donations have the potential to save both human AND animal lives. We receive no government funding, so every breakthrough starts with public support.