Dr Peter Wells

Senior Advisor

Peter Wells has extensive experience in research and development of new vaccines and medicines for disease control and therapy in food-producing and companion animals having worked in the animal health pharmaceutical industry for almost 30 years.

Since retirement from his position as Global Head of Research and Development with Novartis Animal Health, Peter has held non-executive board positions including that of Chairman of GALVmed, a global alliance that through its partners makes livestock vaccines, medicines and diagnostics available and affordable to resourcepoor smallholder farmers in Africa and South Asia.

Initially graduating as a veterinarian from the University of Edinburgh, after studying further at Ontario Veterinary College, Peter was awarded a PhD in pharmacology and immunology.