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Founding a Biotech Start-Up

Jolyon Martin (LN 2005-10)
12 May 2021
King's Talks

Founding a Biotech Start-Up

Presented by Jolyon Martin (LN 2005-10)

Jolyon is co-founder of PetMedix, a biotech start-up based in Cambridge. PetMedix are developing novel veterinary medicines, targeting a range of diseases in dogs and cats. The company is a spin-out of the research that Jolyon carried out in his PhD in the lab of Professor Allan Bradely at the University of Cambridge. This project started as a good scientific idea, and is now a company of 38 people that has raised $13M to date and is continuing to grow and thrive.

In January 2021 PetMedix announced a partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim Animal health, a project that Jolyon lead on. For his work at PetMedix, Jolyon was recently named one of the '30 under 30' in Europe for Science and Healthcare by Forbes Magazine.

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