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Series Highlights
Attendees at Boston 2018
Why Attend
Join the 2nd Annual conference connecting human biotechs with the animal health industry.
Traditionally, innovation in veterinary health has come from parent human pharmaceutical R&D pipelines. Within an increasingly independent and mature animal health industry, new routes to innovation are being established. There are a multitude of exceptional technologies in the human health field that could be used in animal health, but currently there is limited contact between the two areas – this summit aims to connect the two industries.
Benefits of the Animal Health industry to Biotechs:
Testimonials
"This was an excellent event. As a newbie to animal health this was an eye opener. Some great connections and introductions. I would highly recommend your conference. The right balance of networking and information. Thank you!"
Sean Ekins, CEO, COLLABORATIONS PHARMA
"This conference provided relevant information and has led to a potential collaboration. I thought the conference was well focused. It was time well spent. I learned a lot and had productive networking sessions. The concept of the confluence of Human Biomedical development and Animal health is integral to our business plan. Kalos looks to leverage its proof of concept work as well as safety and tox to create parallel product lines."
George Colberg, CEO, Kalos Therapeutics, Inc.
"A well organized conference that established a strong link between biotechnology innovation and potential veterinary uses.”
Michael G. Palfreyman, Director, R&D Advisory Board, PAFOS PHARMA LLC
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
HUMAN BIOTECHNOLOGY
Chief Executive Officers, Chief Scientific Officers, Chief Business Officers and corporate leadership from human biotechs working on technologies in fields including but not limited to:
ANIMAL HEALTH
- Directors of External Innovation & Business Development from leading Animal Health Pharmaceutical and Nutrition Companies
- Market Intelligence and Consultancy Providers
INVESTMENT & SERVICE PROVIDERS
- Private Equity & Venture Capital Investors
- Investment Bankers & M&A advisors
- Legal Advisory
Benefits of Attending
FORGE RELATIONSHIPS with animal health executives and human biotechs in prescheduled 1-on-1 meetings, and discuss research collaborations, deallicensing and other business development opportunities
Address unmet and underserved medical needs across human and veterinary health
Human Biotechs
Identify the target disease areas in animal health that your human health assets can serve
Explore opportunities for generating non-dilutive income, validating and de-risking human research, and maximizing IP assets in our myth-busting case studies of human biotech and animal health partnerships
Learn about the different types of partnerships with animal health, such as research collaborations and out-licensing deals - and how these deals work
Animal Health
Form Partnerships with human health innovators to build your R&D and innovation pipeline.
Identify exciting new technologies in human health that may have translational potential for veterinary medicine - they might be the next blockbuster animal health products!
Hear what past attendees had to say:
Speakers
Scott Brown
Ailis Tweed-Kent
Dr. Ailis Tweed-Kent is an up-and-coming entrepreneur and leader in the development of innovative medical technologies. With her education in medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Ailis has first-hand knowledge of the burden of disease. In 2013, Ailis was inspired by her patients to found Cocoon to develop innovative silk therapeutics for osteoarthritis. Prior to Cocoon, she worked on the design, development, and delivery of diagnostic technologies for global health collaborating with organizations such as PEPFAR/Office of U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and the Global Health Delivery Project. She brings a multidisciplinary approach with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.
Peter Hanson
Centrexion is developing a pipeline of non-opioid, non-addictive treatments to manage pain in people and animals. Peter started his career as a practicing veterinarian and has spent the last 21 years in industry. At Merck and then Merial he was the project leader for two global programs that led to new pain management products for osteoarthritis in dogs and horses. He subsequently held leadership roles for pharmaceutical R&D and project & portfolio management before moving to Abbott Animal Health where he was head of R&D & medical affairs. Peter received his BA and DVM from the University of Minnesota and completed a large animal surgical residency, MS and PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Lewis Gruber
Lewis Gruber is Chief Executive Officer and a founder of SIWA Therapeutics, Inc. (“SIWA”). SIWA is a pre-clinical stage biopharmaceutical company with a first-in-class humanized monoclonal antibody (“mAb”) that binds to a SIWA-identified advanced glycation endproduct target antigen on senescent cells (“SCs”) and removes them. SCs accumulate with aging or exposure to stress and have a causative role in age-related dysfunction and degenerative diseases including. by way of example, many cancers, and neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s, ALS, and Alzheimer’s Disease, SIWA has the complete sequence of SIWA 318H, which provides the basis for senescent cell clearance in any mammalian species. Prior to founding SIWA, Mr. Gruber was a founder of Arryx, Inc., and served as its CEO from 2000 through 2005 (acquired by a publicly-held company). While Mr. Gruber was at Arryx, it received numerous awards including ones for World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer (2005) and Red Herring Top 100 Innovator for 2004. Prior to Arryx, he was a founder of Hyseq, Inc, a publicly-held genomics company (subsequently merged). He served as Hyseq’s CEO from 1994 through 2000. While CEO, Hyseq completed the largest IPO of a biotechnology company in 1997 (underwritten by Salomon Smith Barney and others) and obtained collaborations for Hyseq totaling over $10 million. The technology was sold to Beijing Genomics Institute.
George Colberg
Jed Hubbs
Sharon Chase
Dr. Sharon Chase is a small animal veterinarian with over a decade of clinical practice experience gained from working in general and emergency hospitals in Massachusetts and Washington, DC. In addition to clinical practice, Dr. Chase served as a reviewer with the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) for over seven years. She currently works as a regulatory consultant for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry with Schafer Veterinary Consultants, based in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Chris Robillard
Chris has spent the last 3 years in business development at Karyopharm helping to advance clinical stage products to commercialization in both the human and animal oncology settings. Karyopharm has tested multiple products in canine oncology, both to inform clinical design in humans and to seek partners to advance products in canine oncology. Chris has spent the over 10 years in pharma/biotech in various business development and financial roles.
Cheryl London
Dorothy Brown
Dottie is the lead executional scientist for TCMR at Eli Lilly/Elanco. TCMR facilitates companion animal studies designed to de-risk assets in the Lilly pipeline, as well as assets of potential Lilly partners. At the University of Pennsylvania, Dottie led a sponsored translational research program focusing on the development of outcome assessment instruments for chronic pain in companion animals and applying those instruments to translational studies evaluating the efficacy of novel interventions, such as targeted neurotoxins, in dogs with naturally occurring bone cancer or osteoarthritis. At Eli Lilly/Elanco, she now directs companion animal studies across institutions in order to leverage high quality, systematic translational data with the goal of improving both human and animal health.
Erin Wright
Erin Wright is the senior Healthcare Technology & Distribution Equity Research Analyst at Credit Suisse. Her uniquely broad coverage footprint of 30+ companies spans multiple healthcare sub-sectors including companies in Animal Health, Pharmacy Benefit Management, Pharmaceutical and Medical Distribution, Retail Pharmacy, Dental, Information Technology Services, Clinical Laboratories, and Contract Research Organizations. Erin pioneered a commercial franchise in the Animal Health sector, the first on Wall Street to cover the space in a comprehensive fashion, leveraging her broad experience in equity research covering the pharmaceutical supply chain and products. She has been prominently featured in acclaimed peer reviewed journals as a thought-leader in healthcare industries such as Animal Health. Prior to joining Credit Suisse in 2016, Erin was a lead Equity Research Analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch for eight years, focusing on specific subsectors within healthcare, including Animal Health, Infection Control, and Dental. Erin received a BA in Economics from Harvard University, with an emphasis on Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. She is an avid golfer and lives in New York City.
Bruce Taillon
Milton Boyle
Milton has over 30 years experience in animal agriculture and animal health. He started his career as a commercial poultry geneticist and was head of R&D for 2 primary poultry breeders (Avian Farms International and Hubbard Farms). Since 2007, he has worked for Merial and now Boehringer Ingelheim as the business development partner for R&D focusing on licenses and research collaborations.
Scott DeWire
Scott is responsible for immuno-oncology partnerships and licensing at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. Scott learned to pipette as an intern and later bench scientist with Pfizer Animal Health in his hometown of Groton, CT. After Pfizer, he earned a PhD from the University of North Carolina, and completed his postdoc at Duke University with Robert Lefkowitz (2012 Nobel Prize). Out of his postdoc, Scott co-founded Trevena Inc, a biotech company focused on GPCR biology. Since joining Boehringer in 2012, Scott has held various roles in the research group before joining BD&L in 2016.
Scott has a lifelong love of animals, and he and his family currently have a menagerie of animals that includes his three cherished beagles.
David R. Boyko
David R. Boyko is Director, Global Business Development for Merck Animal Health (known as MSD Animal Health outside the United States and Canada), a part of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ. In this role, David is responsible to identify, evaluate, negotiate and execute licensing and business development transactions for animal health products and services, including newly emerging animal diseases, biopharmaceuticals, vaccines, drug and vaccine delivery and new, digital technologies. Geographically, he focuses on opportunities for the North American business units.
Underpinning that role are more than twenty years of legal practice, with twenty of those years as a deal lawyer, business partner and counselor in the life sciences industry. His legal career includes extensive experience in corporate development and licensing activities for prescription, over-the-counter health and animal health products and technologies, as well as in the new area of digital health. He has advised executive and senior management levels on a broad range of legal issues, including M&A, regulatory, commercial, corporate governance and litigation, managed lawyers and controlled outside counsel annual budgets in excess of $2MM. David also has been Division Counsel for Healthcare Services & Solutions, Merck's business unit for innovative, non-drug healthcare solutions, a Senior Counsel in the Corporate Transactions Groups of both Merck and Schering-Plough, and an executive officer for Xenogen Corporation. In private practice, David was with the law firms of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. He has a number of published articles on intellectual property and antitrust matters, and has chaired licensing panels at several annual meetings of the Association of Corporate Counsel.
David earned his J.D. degree from the University of California Los Angeles, his M.A. degree in International Relations from the University of Southern California and his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. David is also a veteran, having served eight years of active duty as a U.S. Air Force officer.
Linda Rhodes
Dr. Rhodes has 28 years of accomplishments in human and animal drug discovery, development, biomedical research, and clinical veterinary medicine.
Dr. Rhodes was educated at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine (VMD) and Cornell University (PhD). She has 28 years of accomplishments in human and animal drug discovery, development, biomedical research, and clinical veterinary medicine. She has an extensive background in physiology, veterinary medicine, and molecular biology. As a senior research fellow at Merck Research Laboratories for 10 years, she led pre-clinical biology evaluation of several marketed human drugs. Dr. Rhodes practiced clinical veterinary medicine for five years, with experience in both companion and farm animal practice. She worked for Merial Ltd. as director of development projects, leading project teams developing novel compounds for a variety of indications and headed new technology assessment, leading the evaluation of licensing opportunities. In April 2001, she formed AlcheraBio, a consulting, marketing, communications and contract research firm specializing in developing new drugs for animals, working with biotechnology and animal health companies, with clients in the US, European Union, Canada and Australia. AlcheraBio was acquired in 2008 by Argenta, and in 2011, Dr. Rhodes accepted a position as CEO of Aratana Therapeutics, a company developing innovative new medicines for dogs and cats, and subsequently, when the company became public (PETX) served as its Chief Scientific Officer. During her tenure, development was completed on three new pet therapeutics: two new molecules with novel mechanisms of actions were approved by the FDA, and a third drug had FDA registration completed and was approved in August, 2016. She is currently retired and an independent consultant. She is a member of the Board of Directors of ImmuCell (NASDAQ: ICCC) and the Alliance for Contraception in Dogs and Cats, serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Found Animals Foundation. She is an adjunct faculty member in the Graduate Animal Science program at Rutgers University.
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Venue
Hyatt Regency Boston Harbor, Boston, MA
Venue: Hyatt Regency Boston Harbor
Address: 101 Harborside Drive, Boston, MA 02128
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