Grant funding can be a catalyst for scientific and commercial progress. Adriann Sax, CEO & Co-Founder of Vetigenics, shares how strategic use of SBIR and foundation grants enabled the company to build a canine antibody platform, attract support from investors, and secure partners such as Merck Animal Health.

Machine learning is reshaping discovery science in Human Health and Organicin Scientific is proving its potential in animal health too. Mat Mitchell, Co-Founder and CTO, shares how Organicin Scientific’s machine-learning platform automates candidate selection to identify, evaluate, and commercialise novel antimicrobials for safe and sustainable use across the industry.

With resistance to existing parasiticides rising and few new molecules in decades, ASTRA Therapeutics set out to change the game. Co-CEOs Natacha Gaillard and Ashwani Sharma share how the company closed one of the largest seed rounds in animal health, positioned itself to deliver precision-designed antiparasitics, and built investor confidence in solving one of animal health’s most urgent challenges.