ANIMAL HEALTH and VETERINARY
pharmaceutical consultants
expertise in research, development and commercialization of
veterinary pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, biologics and devices
ABOUT animal health consultants
Established in 2007 by Craig Woods DVM, MS, MBA, Animal Health Consultants has assisted dozens of human and veterinary companies develop their products for the animal health market. Dr. Woods brings clinical, industry, start-up and academic experience to every project. After clinical practice, Dr. Woods held senior level research and business development positions in industry between 1998 and 2015. Then in 2015, Dr. Woods transitioned to academia where he directed human and veterinary clinical trials. During this time, he was awarded numerous grants and served as an investigator on projects involving human and avian influenza, SARS-CoV2, cardiac amyloidosis and biological threat assessments among other research areas.
OUR animal health consulting services
Animal Health Consultants (AHC) supports human and veterinary pharmaceutical companies, veterinary contract research organizations, and universities in developing and licensing technologies with dual applications for human and veterinary medicine. AHC’s veterinary consultants bring decades of industry, academic and clinical practice experience with expertise in technology and market assessment, human and veterinary clinical studies, and licensing negotiations. Our animal health consulting team has a deep understanding of veterinary regulations (FDA, USDA), the design and management of veterinary clinical studies, and forming strategic partnerships with veterinary companies and veterinary distributors.
Veterinary Clinical Studies
We have extensive experience as study investigators, developing veterinary study protocols and documentation, and managing pilot and pivotal veterinary clinical trials (e.g., veterinary clinical studies). Veterinary clinical studies give pets access to new veterinary therapeutics while gathering valuable data to advance human and veterinary medicine. Our team has experience in designing and running human and veterinary clinical studies, giving us unique insight into comparative medicine and conducting veterinary studies in manner similar to human clinical studies.
Veterinary Regulatory Consulting
Our team can support veterinary regulatory affairs and submissions for veterinary drugs (21 CFR), veterinary biologics and veterinary diagnostics (9 CFR), and other regulated veterinary products. We can assist clients in preparing and submitting product development plans, INADs, production outlines, blueprints, and other documents to the FDA-Center for Veterinary Medicine and USDA-Center for Veterinary Biologics, as well as serving as regulatory liaisons and responsible officials for third parties.
Animal Health Business Development
Our veterinary consultants can perform veterinary market research and competitive analysis, veterinary sales forecasting, and create financial models that incorporate R&D, regulatory fees and other expenditures related to veterinary product development. We can also create product development plans and commercialization strategies, and assist with veterinary company formation and interim management. Our animal health consultants have negotiated a range of agreements with veterinary companies and veterinary distributors including option, license, material transfer, and manufacturing agreements.
Veterinary Research: basic research and bioinformatics
Through our network, we can provide large scale data analysis including cleaning, biostatistics, advanced data analytics, visualization, and interactive web-based tool development using natural language processing (NLP), R, Python and other programming languages for a customized approach to analyzing large datasets. We can also support and coordinate a range of specialized testing of biospecimens including multi-omics (genomics through protemics), pharmacokinetic method development, cell based assays and a range of other laboratory based research with our academic and private sector collaborators.
Types of Veterinary Consultants
There are various types of veterinary and animal health consultants, with some focusing on practices while others supporting the veterinary pharmaceutical industry. Veterinary practice consultants routinely advise on financial or growth strategies (e.g., veterinary business consultants, veterinary financial consultants, veterinary marketing consultants, and veterinary practice management consultants).
In contrast, the team at Animal Health Consultants focuses on veterinary pharmaceutical research and development. We routinely work with veterinary pharmaceutical companies and start-ups. As such, we are considered veterinary clinical trials consultants and veterinary regulatory consultants with extensive experience in clinical research, material transfer and data use agreements. We also have extensive experience as veterinary business development consultants including technology valuation and licensing negotiations. In this capacity, we can advise on terms of technology licensing agreements and distribution agreements.