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Welcome to Coronado Research

Coronado Research is a consultancy-led, professional services organisation, which provides support to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies. Our objective is to optimise the clinical development process by leveraging all the data available using AI, ML, and leading technologies.

Our practices cover Regulatory Strategy, Advanced Analytics, Market Access and Health Economics, and Technology. Our teams work with customers to “join-the-dots” between these disciplines to ensure treatments are developed with the end in mind and better match market needs.

Dr Nicholas Edwards Chair

Nick Edwards has extensive experience in the pharmaceutical industry, having spent 18 years with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), where he led the firm’s global Pharmaceutical R&D business. During his tenure, he worked on projects with major pharmaceutical companies, such as building a global drug development function, developing drug research strategies, and supporting organisational integration after mergers. In 2005, Nick co-founded Kinapse, a consulting and outsourcing business focused on the pharmaceutical industry, which he chaired until its sale in 2016. He has also consulted for the UK Department of Health and supported life science start-ups. Currently, Nick also chairs Prescient Healthcare Group and Oxford Medical Products, both of which focus on biopharmaceutical and medical innovation.

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Andrew MacGarvey Chief Executive Officer

Andrew MacGarvey has been involved in clinical development for over 25 years. In his early career he worked for a variety of Contract Research Organisations in Statistical Programming and Clinical Data Management. Andrew’s interest in technology took him to a software company in the early days of Electronic Data Capture but for the last 16 years he has focussed on data analytics.

With a reputation for building strong, values-driven teams, he has grown businesses and taken them to new geographies including EMEA, the US, and Asia.

In Coronado, Andrew brings all his experience together to deliver a vision of optimised clinical trials and a disruptive approach to drug development.

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Professor Jennifer Visser-Rogers Chief Scientific Officer

Professor Jennifer Visser-Rogers is an accomplished consultant with a broad portfolio of achievement. Jennifer made the move into industry after a career in academia which included the University of Oxford where she was Director of Statistical Consultancy Services. She has a strong record in the development of novel methodologies in the design and analysis of clinical trials, working alongside other statisticians, clinicians, data scientists, industry experts, and regulators.

More recently, Jennifer has applied her expertise to industry, leading research teams in the CRO space and remaining at the forefront of innovation. She has experience of growing expert strategic consulting groups, developing some of the most influential and talented thought leaders.

A popular science communicator, Jennifer has made numerous media appearances and regularly works with journalists and government to improve the understanding of statistics. She was the 2020 winner of the annual HealthWatch award and named one of the Twenty Women in Data and Tech in 2024 by Women in Data®. A former Vice President of the Royal Statistical Society, Jennifer is the incoming President of the International Biometrics Society, British and Irish Region.

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Gail Kniveton Chief Talent Officer

Gail has extensive experience in building teams across the life sciences sector. Working with management teams, she has helped numerous companies to scale through precision hiring and providing contract services including Functional Service Provision models. Gail started her career at Innovex and has worked for Contract Research Organisations and Agencies since, gaining expert knowledge in how to grow high functioning teams. For the last 12 years she has run her own recruitment and consulting companies Pop Science and Innovo Associates.

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Rob Nichols Digital Health Consultant

Rob has extensive experience of delivering high quality strategic solutions to the pharmaceutical industry while working in first-in-class global clinical technology companies and Contract Research Organisations (CRO), as well as 7 years in the public health research departments of world leading academic organisations. Subsequently he has taken the knowledge gained while working for large established companies and applied to start-up, scale-up, and fast-growing ones in the eClinical space (including eDC, RBM and eCOA specialist companies). He now leads his own company NB Solutions and consults as a strategic advisor and board member for tech, CRO, and investment companies.

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Find out more

While we complete the new website for Coronado Research you can contact us using the email address below or follow us on LinkedIn. We will post latest news to the Coronado Research LinkedIn page.

email us at: datadriven@coronado-research.com

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