Alison Bendele, DVM, PhD, DACVP
President & Founder

• Board Certified Veterinary Pathologist
• Over 35 years Industry Experience
• 22+ Years as CRO Owner
• Experienced in pharmacologic and toxicologic pathology
• Expertise in animal models of rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, IBD, general inflammation, pain, pharmacokinetics and toxicity
• 175+ peer-reviewed articles

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Phillip Bendele, BA, MBA
CEO

• 18+ years of CRO experience
• Highly experienced in animal models of rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, general inflammation, pain, lupus, pharmacokinetics and toxicity
• 22+ years management experience

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Jed Pheneger, BS, MT/HTL (ASCP)
Vice President of Research
Inflammation & Pharmacokinetics

• Board Certified Medical Technologist
• Board Certified Histotechnologist
• Over 18 years Industry Experience (6+ via CRO)
• Expertise in animal models of arthritis, IBD, general inflammation, lupus, pharmacokinetics and toxicity

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Robert O’Connell, BS, MBA
Vice President of Research
Inflammatory Bowel Disease

• 10+ years of CRO experience
• 3+ years experience with histology, immunohistochemistry and ex vivo analysis
• Highly experienced in animal models of inflammatory bowel disease
• Validation of new models for the company including MDR1a Spontaneous colitis, Rat DSS induced colitis, Rat TNBS induced colitis & IL10rb KO DSS induced colitis

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Randy Howard, BS, PhD
Principal Investigator
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)

• BS in Biochemistry, PhD in Pharmacology
• 20+ years in drug discovery, development and management
• Therapeutic areas include inflammation, cancer, cardiovascular,
  pulmonary, CNS, reproductive, and infectious disease
• Over 40 peer-reviewed publications

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Christopher M. Butt, PhD
Vice President of Research
CNS/Neuroscience

• BSc in Biology, PhD in Neurobiology, Postdoc in Neuropharmacology & Pharmacogenetics
• 25+ years in drug R&D, management and nutrition
• Therapeutic areas include CNS/neuroscience, addiction biology, early life development of the brain & immune system, neuroinflammation and traumatic brain injury
• 2 granted patents, 5 patent applications, 2 book chapters and 26 peer-reviewed publications

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Leyla Haygood, BS, MS
Principal Investigator
Pain & General Inflammation

• 5+ years of CRO experience
• 8+ years experience as veterinary and research assistant
• Ex vivo analysis specialist
• Highly experienced in animal models of Pain and General Inflammation
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• 15+ years of veterinary pathology experience
• 25+ years as a Doctor of Veterinary medicine
• Highly experienced in mouse  models of Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Oncology

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Melissa Walker, PhD
Associate Principal Investigator
Inflammatory Bowel Disease

• BA in Biology, minor in Chemistry, Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology
• 10+ years (2+ years via CRO) of experience in mouse models of infectious disease, vaccinology, autoimmunity, and inflammation.
• Highly experienced in cell culture and in vitro assay development.
• Published in Immunological peer review journals.

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Jacob Favret  BS
Associate Principal Investigator
Inflammation & Pain

• BA in Psychology
• Trained in the Maier/Watkins Lab at the University of Colorado
• 5+ years of CRO experience
• Focus on RA, OA and models of Acute Pain

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