GDF Consulting

I have over 20 years of strategic business development experience building partnerships and managing alliances in biotech, pharmaceuticals, non-profit research, healthcare, medicine, and academia. I have spent my career at the nexus of science and business. As a consultant, I will leverage my experience and skills to help you solve important disease problems.

Areas of Expertise

I spearhead and support the following business development functions:

In-licensing and out-licensing
Identifying, structuring, negotiating, and closing transactions
Value proposition development
Market research
Full opportunity assessment
Pipeline and competitive landscape analysis
Patient-based forecasting
Revenue modeling
Search and evaluation
Technical assessment
Marketing presentations
Partnering meetings
Investment pitch
Public speaking

Biography

Gregory Daniel Frank, PhD is principal consultant at GDF Consulting. He has 20 years of strategic business development experience in biotech, pharma, healthcare, and medicine with expertise in oncology, immunotherapy, inflammation, autoimmune disease, infectious disease, transplantation, neuroscience, sleep and circadian rhythm, metabolic disease, cardiovascular disease, dermatology, and opthalmology.

He has executed over 20 strategic partnerships around drug candidates, research projects, services, joint ventures, and investments, across all phases of development including research, discovery, preclinical, clinical, and commercial.

Gregory is a glass-half-full optimist and brings boundless energy and enthusiasm to solving every problem. He has spent decades immersed in science and business, building a broad knowledge base and diverse skill set, and leverages this expertise to help solve important disease problems.

Gregory has a B.A. in Biology from UC Santa Cruz and a Ph.D. in Immunology from Stanford University School of Medicine and teaches Human Physiology at UCSC Silicon Valley Extension giving him a deep understanding of health and disease.