Tech boss uses ChatGPT to create cancer vaccine to save dying dog

Paul Conyngham and his dog Rosie at his home in Sydney. When Rosie became stricken with cancer, the data expert harnessed ChatGPT to find a cure. Picture: John Feder
Riddled with cancer, Rosie the rescue dog had only months to live, until her dogged owner collared a chatbot to collaborate with elite medical scientists in the quest for a cure.
Now the hi-tech teamwork has unleashed an experimental medicine that offers hope to human patients, by using mRNA vaccines in oncology.
Abandoned in bushland, eight-year-old Rosie found her forever home with Sydney tech entrepreneur Paul Conyngham, who adopted the staffy-shar pei cross from an animal shelter in 2019 – just in time for pandemic lockdowns.
Heartbroken when his fur-baby was diagnosed with a deadly mast cell cancer in 2024, Mr Conyngham threw thousands of dollars at veterinary chemotherapy and surgery, which slowed but failed to shrink the tumours. Now, after treatment with a custom mRNA cancer vaccine over the Christmas break, the …