Andy Smith gives an analyst and investor’s view on life science companies. He has been the lead fund manager for four life science–specific funds, including 3i Bioscience, International Biotechnology and the AXA Framlington Biotech Fund, and was chief investment officer at Mannbio Invest. He was a global product manager at SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals until 2000. 

Andy joined the independent research house Equity Development in 2019 having previously been an analyst at Edison group and a Senior Principal in ICON PLC’s Commercialization, Pricing and Market Access consulting practice. 

Cormac Sheridan is a highly experienced biotechnology commentator, having reported on the sector since the mid-1990s. He has been a contributor to Nature Biotechnology for over two decades and reported for BioWorld for over 25 years. His work has also appeared in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, The Scientist, New Scientist, The Irish Times, The Irish Examiner, and Technology Ireland, among other publications. He has also reported on technology for IT’s Monday News and has lectured on media to B.Sc. Genetics students at University College Cork for 20 years. 

Cormac studied Microbiology at UCC and Journalism at Dublin City University and is currently the pro bono administrator of the Mary Mulvihill Award, a science media competition for third-level students in Ireland. In a previous life, he was a theatre lighting designer. 

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