Our mission is to make clinical research more accessible to the general public. Our goals are to have a positive impact on healthcare within the UK and around the world by delivering clinical trials on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry.
Panthera was founded in 2019 by Dr Ian Smith, who founded Synexus – the first SMO model – in Europe in 1989, and Professor John Lyon, a past global VP of CRO Covance.
They were joined by Jane Restorick, who was previously Chief Operating Officer and later Chief Patient Officer at Synexus, and in 2020 Stuart Young, previously general manager of Synexus, joined Panthera to become CEO. In 2020 Chris Dodd, who was previously Head of Commercial at Accelerated Enrolment Solutions, joined the team as Chief Commercial Officer.
Since 2019, and despite the COVID pandemic, Panthera has grown to more than five sites across the UK with several more planned. Panthera has also formed a partnership with three sites in southern Sweden and is in discussion with further sites across Western Europe.