Harnessing some of Australia's most sought-after scientists to manufacture the vaccine in laboratories at the University of NSW, he then tracked down the only veterinary researcher with ethics approval to administer the experimental drug. It was ChatGPT that suggested immunotherapy, pointing Mr Conyngham to the UNSW Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics, where Associate Professor Smith still remembers the "weird" request. "We often get oddball queries, and this one was coming from a private individual looking to sequence his dog,'' he recalls. "DNA sequencing is a way to profile the tumour and identify mutations that might be causing the disease.''