Panellists
Adele Williams
AI & Clinical Data Consultant
AWX Consultancy
Oli Viner
Owner
Hello Vet
Dr Angela Jones
Co-CEO
Petscribers
Jasdeep Singh
CEO
SingleTimeMicroneedles
Panellists
Dan O'Neil
Associate Professor in Companion Animal Epidemiology
Royal Veterinary College, University of London
David Singleton
Director of Research
IVC Evidensia
Our panel of experienced animal health investors and deal makers will discuss their investment thesis, commercialisation and exit strategies.
Panellists
Spencer Swayze
Managing Director
Osiris Growth Capital
Dave Ross
Partner
Agrifood Investment Advisory LLP
Wendy Furness
Director & Founder
Animal Health Angels
Julia Stephanus
Partner
Borealis Ventures
Julia has been a visionary entrepreneur and strategic brand builder in the veterinary industry for 30+ years. Her achievements include building and scaling two successful start-up veterinary pharmaceutical businesses and launching 28 veterinary products. She was Founder and CEO of Summit VetPharm, which exited to Ceva Animal Health in 2010. As Chief Commercial Officer of Aratana Therapeutics (PETX), she was instrumental in the IPO and the buildout of a fully integrated commercial organization. Julia led the co-promotion and the licensing of Aratana’s lead osteoarthritis product, Galliprant®, to Elanco. Aratana exited to Elanco in 2019.
Julia is Founder and President of Avviare, LLC, providing consulting services to start-ups and established players in veterinary biopharmaceuticals. In addition to the start-up experience, Julia’s career includes senior-level positions at Ceva, Forest Laboratories (Allergan) and Pfizer Animal Health (Zoetis) and their legacy companies.
Julia presently serves on the Boards of PBI Gordon, ReduxBio, and Jenga Biosciences. Julia is a Founding Director and Board Member of Feather in Her Cap, recognizing outstanding women in Animal Health.
Julia received her Bachelor of Arts from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, with additional education at the Wharton School of Business, Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and Harvard University.
Industry partners most heavily involved in transactions across the ecosystem will share a data driven view of the market and discuss activity over the last 5 years and what we can expect in the next 5.
Moderator
Robert Darwin
Partner
Sidley Austin LLP
Dr. Kimberly Simmons
Director Global Regulatory Affairs
Clinglobal
Clinglobal
Website: https://www.clinglobal.com/
Clinglobal is a global, science-based, quality-driven group dedicated to accelerating innovation by providing services and solutions to the animal care industry through the ever-expanding Clinglobal group of companies. Animals are our passion, and people are our strength. Together, we better lives by accelerating animal health innovation.
Our unique business model allows the animal health industry and community to benefit from simplified, comprehensive, and customisable contracting solutions for animal health and nutrition product development and registration.
Our group include companies such as Clinvet (preclinical and lab clinical studies in companion and production animals), Clindata (data management and statistical analysis solutions), Clinomics (molecular biology, clinical pathology and immunology R&D laboratory), rtilab (microbiology and clinical pathology R&D laboratory) and Clinglobal (product development consultancy, regulatory affairs and quality assurance services), as well as an extensive network of strategic partners across geographies and fields of expertise.
Key discussions points
- Predictive disease modelling and early detection
- AI to support smarter vaccine development and deployment
- Interpretation of complex biological data (omics)
- Training LLMs to summarize complex topics and specialized literature
- Current AI-based tools for patent search and discovery
Sebastiano Busato
Associate Research Scientist
United Animal Health
Nathan Horn
Scientific Discovery Lead
United Animal Health
United Animal Health
Website: http://www.unitedanh.com/
United Animal Health, founded in 1956, is a research-driven company that helps protein producers raise healthier animals to feed a growing world. United Animal Health offers livestock nutrition and health products globally through the United Animal Health or affiliate brands. To learn more, visit UnitedAnH.com.