Veterinary
Pharmaceutical
Consultants
Veterinary industry consultants with industry, clinical, research, academic, and start-up experience, providing comprehensive guidance from concept to commercialization
Veterinary Consulting Services
Our veterinary consultants provide a range of animal health consulting services including technology assessment, forecasting and financial modeling, veterinary clinical studies, and licensing and commercial strategy. We have worked with a broad range of clients including biomedical companies, veterinary companies, veterinary laboratories, medical device companies, veterinary contract research organizations, universities, and animal health investors.
Our Difference
Our veterinary consulting team has licensed veterinarians with industry, academic and private practice experience, and have started multiple veterinary companies. We bring real-world, hands-on experience in developing and commercializing various veterinary products, veterinary regulations (FDA, USDA), veterinary clinical studies, technology licensing, and veterinary distribution strategies.
Veterinary Clinical Studies
We have extensive experience in developing and managing pilot and pivotal veterinary clinical trials (e.g., veterinary clinical studies), veterinary study protocols and study documentation. Veterinary clinical studies allow pets access to new veterinary therapeutics while gathering valuable data to advance both human and veterinary medicine. Our veterinary clinical studies are similar to human clinical studies, reviewing each study with the pet owner and obtaining their consent.
Business Development
Our veterinary consultants support veterinary market research, competitive analysis, sales forecasting and financial modeling accounting for R&D and other expenditures associated with bringing veterinary products to market. We can create product development plans and commercialization strategies, support technology licensing & negotiations with third parties, and assist with veterinary company formation and interim management.
Veterinary Regulations
Our team can provide guidance on veterinary regulations for veterinary drugs (21 CFR), veterinary medical devices (21 CFR), veterinary biologics (9 CFR), and veterinary diagnostics (9 CFR). We can assist in preparing and submitting product development plans, INADs, VMFs, outlines of production, blueprints, and other documents to the FDA-Center for Veterinary Medicine and USDA-Center for Veterinary Biologics, and serving as regulatory liaisons for third parties.
Data Analytics & Bioinformatics
We can support clinical biostatistics and large scale bioinformatic analysis. Services include dataset cleaning, statistical analysis, advanced data analytics, visualization, and interactive web-based tool development using natural language processing (NLP), unsupervised machine learning, and traditional statistical modeling. Our network has expertise in R, Python and other programming languages for a customized approach to analyzing large datasets.
Principal Veterinary Consultant
Craig Woods DVM, MS, MBA established Woods Consulting, LLC (Animal Health Consultants) in 2007, which has assisted dozens of companies in navigating veterinary regulations, clinical research and business development. Craig blends his unique expertise in managing human clinical research programs (Phase II-III) and comparative medicine. Craig’s work has spanned the development of antivenoms, immunotherapeutics, orthopedic and intraocular implants, antineoplastics and other drugs, devices and diagnostics. Between 1998-2015, Craig held senior level business development and research positions in the veterinary industry, leading the due diligence on dozens of technology licensing transactions and supporting product commercialization. In 2015, he was recruited into academia to lead human and veterinary clinical research, most recently as the Director of Infectious Disease and Biosecurity Projects at Arizona State University’s Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative. He is a licensed veterinarian and received his BS, DVM, and MS from the University of Missouri and his MBA from Arizona State University.
A One Health Approach
Some photos over the years working on projects with physicians and scientists to advance products and technologies with dual applications in human and veterinary medicine.
2020: Conducting human COVID-19 surveillance at Arizona hospitals during the initial outbreak
2019: Evaluating a novel tumor imaging agent in dogs to help visualize cancer during surgery
2011: Visiting venom research laboratory in Mexico, helping to develop pit viper antivenoms
Early 2000’s: developing peptide immunotherapeutics for canine diseases comparable to humans
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