Dr. Steven Dow is a veterinary internist and immunologist, and he directs the Immunotherapy Research Laboratory in the Flint Animal Cancer Center, in the Department of Clinical Sciences, in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State University. His laboratory is developing new immune-based approaches to the treatment of bone cancer and brain cancer, including therapies designed to remove immune suppressive cell populations from within the tumor microenvironment, as well as new CAR T cell therapies.  The laboratory is also investigating the role of the immune system in regulating the development of osteoarthritis and degenerative disk disease and in healing chronic tendon injuries.

Dr. Dow received his B.A. from the University of Virginia and his D.V.M. from the University of Georgia. He completed an internal medicine residency in the Department of Clinical Sciences at CSU and is board-certified in that discipline. He then obtained a Ph.D. in comparative pathology from the Department of Pathology at CSU, and went on to complete a postdoctoral fellowship in T cell biology and tumor immunology at National Jewish Hospital in Denver.  After that, he rejoined the faculty at CSU, where he directs the IRL, trains graduate students and post-docs and assists in the training of house officers in small animal internal medicine in the Veterinary Teaching Hospital.