AI-Designed Vaccine Shrinks Tumor in Rescue Dog

A Sydney AI consultant Paul Conyngham has developed a custom mRNA cancer vaccine for his dog named Rosie by combining ChatGPT, Grok, DeepMind’s AlphaFold, and UNSW's genomics lab turning 350 GB of tumor data into a treatment with real results.

Rosie, diagnosed with mast cell cancer in 2024, has already months left to live despite chemo and surgery.

Conyngham used ChatGPT to map the research, paid $3K for genomic sequencing, then fed the data through AlphaFold to model Rosie's mutations. Then the UNSW RNA Institute helped him turn the formula into a custom vaccine, with the final vaccine construct designed by Grok.

The result: one tumor shrank by half after her December injection, with Conyngham now working to create a second vaccine for her other non-responding tumors.

Rosie isn't completely cured, but the fact that AI provided the tools to take a real action at a previously hopeless situation with real impact is a powerful and impressive thing.