Our Mission

Our Mission

...because they are not just animals.

VetPharm’s sole purpose is to enhance the health and well-being of all companion animals. For many people, an animal is a loyal friend. For some, they are treasured members of the family. For others – like breeders, farmers, and ranchers – they are valuable assets. Whatever your animals are to you, they deserve the highest quality of care. VetPharm’s goal is to assure that such care is delivered in every new veterinary product.

We achieve our goals by:

  • Testing for Safety and Efficacy – To help ensure that each new medicine, nutritional product, nutraceutical, and medical device is thoroughly tested for safety and efficacy prior to introduction.
  • Reporting All Side Effects – To objectively report and thoroughly document any side effect observed during a clinical trial – no matter how modest – because that is the right, honest, and ethical thing to do.
  • Speeding New Therapies to Market – To accelerate the development and introduction of new therapies by completing clinical trials as quickly and efficiently as possible.
  • Connecting Sponsors with Investigators – To link pharmaceutical, nutrition, nutraceutical, and device companies that are developing new veterinary products with experienced veterinary investigators nationwide.
  • Creating Smarter Studies – To enhance clinical studies by drafting protocols that are easier to follow and designing data forms that minimize data entry error.
We do all of these things because time is short for the animals.
We also do them because time is money for our sponsors.
 

The Animal Health CRO

VetPharm is the world’s leading research support organization dedicated exclusively to animal health. Our proprietary study management system – adapted from proven human trial procedures – streamlines the entire clinical trial process and dramatically shortens product development timelines.
The result: earlier introduction of more new products to improve the health and well being of companion animals everywhere!
  

Benefits for the Animal Health Community

  • Better data, quicker
    VetPharm’s exclusive network of prequalified, experienced veterinary investigators minimizes recruitment time and improves data quality.
  • Faster initiation of studies
    Our extensive database of breed-specific diagnostic and demographic information enables reliable enrollment projections and rapid study initiation.
  • You can focus on science, not details
    VetPharm’s proven clinical trial management system relieves sponsors of virtually all administrative burdens, allowing them to concentrate on the science of the trial – not the details.
  • Single-source, comprehensive convenience
    We also offer a comprehensive, single-supplier outsourcing solution including complete protocol development, data management, biostatistical analysis, medical writing, and regulatory support consulting as part of our single-supplier outsourcing solution.

VetPharm – How a Dream Became Reality for Denni Day

VetPharm’s President and CEO, Denni Day, has been wild about animals since early childhood. Breed or size never mattered; she loved them all. As a young girl, whenever anyone asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up, she always gave the same enthusiastic answer: “A veterinarian!”

She came close to realizing her dream when she was accepted into veterinary school. However, severe allergies prevented her enrollment. Undeterred, Denni redirected her passion toward two-legged “animals,” serving human patients as a registered nurse for more than ten years.

After Denni completed her graduate studies in public health at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), she gained experience in hospital administration and, later, in clinical consulting with KPMG Peat Marwick. Eventually, she became a faculty member in the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester (NY). It was here that Denni became involved in numerous federal- and industry-sponsored human clinical trials. She quickly recognized the need for modern management techniques in those projects. So, she created and directed a university-affiliated clinical trials organization that initiated seven major studies during its first year of operation. As part of that effort, Denni personally recruited more than 1,400 community-based physicians as study investigators.

Meanwhile, Denni’s love of animals was focused on her six Springer Spaniels. After losing three of these beloved companions to idiopathic epilepsy, Denni resolved to find a remedy for this and other animal disorders. Denni distilled that commitment into a plan to combine her medical and pharmaceutical background in a new career dedicated to animal health.

Denni discussed her idea with her personal veterinarian and with a friend whose family had co-founded one of the first human pharmaceutical contract research organizations. Her veterinarian already had participated in several clinical studies with various pharmaceutical companies and saw the need for more organized study administration. Her friend knew of the growing demand for animal health pharmaceuticals and recognized the business potential. VetPharm was born in these early discussions. And the rest, as they say, is animal health history!