# We would like to thank Deborah Olsen and Sara Conley at the International Elephant Foundation for their support of this project.

*biotech · news · 2026-05-30 · Nature*

## Key points

- The project received funding support from the Arizona Cancer Evolution Center through NIH grant U54 CA217376.
- NIH and CPRIT grants supported the Baylor College of Medicine Integrated Microscopy Core used in this study.
- Multiple zoos across the U.S. contributed samples and efforts to combat EEHV-HD in elephants.
- The University of Utah Cell Imaging Core provided access to a Zeiss AxioScan Z1 and technical expertise.

We would like to thank Deborah Olsen and Sara Conley at the International Elephant Foundation for their support of this project. We would like to thank David Gillespie and Randy Jensen for kindly allowing us to use their microscope (Olympus BX41). We thank Christian Con Yost and Mark Cody at the University of Utah for sharing their expertise related to measuring NET formation. We thank the University of Utah Cell Imaging Core for the use of their Zeiss AxioScan Z1 and for providing their expertise to support this project. We thank the Baylor College of Medicine Integrated Microscopy Core. The Integrated Microscopy Core is supported by the Center for Advanced Microscopy and Image Informatics (CAMII) with funding from NIH (DK56338, CA125123, ES030285), and CPRIT (RP150578, RP170719). We would like to thank Aaron Bretones for administrative support and Matthew Buccilli for technical support. We thank Utah’s Hogle Zoo, Houston Zoo, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Columbus Zoo, San Antonio Zoo, ABQ BioPark Zoo, Denver Zoo, Santa Barbara Zoo, Oklahoma City Zoo, Dickerson Park Zoo, and others for providing samples and for their tremendous dedication and tireless efforts to save elephants from succumbing to EEHV-HD. This work was supported by Arizona Cancer Evolution Center Pilot Funding from NIH grant U54 CA217376 and University of Utah Department of Pediatrics Research Enterprise. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Reprints and permissions

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