Change is Coming: New Therapies, Big Data, New Capital for New Companies: Some Thoughts on the Future

Introduction
The animal health industry has changed dramatically over the last ten years, and is poised for an acceleration of change. Our customers are changing, as practices consolidate into corporations, and sales that used to be direct to veterinarians are going direct to consumer, via a robust internet market. Companies are breaking away from their human health ‘parents’ and becoming stand alone public companies, as Zoetis and then Elanco have done, with likely more to follow. Innovative  therapeutic options, beyond small molecule drugs, including a role for diagnostics, genomics and big data are being explored for uses in both production and companion animals, as slowly an ‘animal biotech’ ecosystem is
emerging. This talk will highlight some examples, and discuss some of the opportunities for innovation in animal health. [...]