Primary Job Title Founder and CMO Primary Organization 
Animal Cell Therapies
Gender Female
Dr. Kathryn Petrucci brings together a scientific, business, and international background to ACT. Prior to becoming a veterinarian she worked at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Vienna, Austria and then as an investment executive at Dean Witter and Piper Jaffray and studied in an MBA program for one year.
She then
attended Veterinary School where she graduated in 2003 from the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine with a DVM degree. She spent five years in private practice at a progressive small animal practice in San Francisco developing skills in internal medicine, ultrasound, surgery, endoscopy, dentistry and oncology. She also took several courses in advanced veterinary dentistry.
Prior to her present appointment, Dr. Petrucci worked in the human stem cell field., working primarily with mesenchymal stem cells. At ACT she has been involved in all aspects of the business from setting up the corporate structure, the laboratory, hiring, initiating collaborations, protocol and study designs, cost management, developing intellectual property, writing INAD’s, patents, contracts, business plans and presentations.
