Podcast Feature: The Veterinary Optimist

Ashley Kalinauskas, CEO of Torigen: From College To Curing Cancer

Episode Description:

Listen in as I chat with Ashley Kalinauskas, CEO of Torigen. We discuss her journey from college to leading innovation for animal cancer treatments. We talk about turning down jobs to follow her dreams, moving back in with her roommate (Dad) after college, and not giving up on what she knew was possible. Now she is thriving as the CEO of her own company and focused on saving pets.Ashley is the founder and CEO of Torigen Pharmaceuticals, a start‑up that resulted from her graduate thesis project at the University of Notre Dame. Ashley graduated from the University of Connecticut in 2012 with an undergraduate degree in Pathobiology, and went on to complete her Masters at the University of Notre Dame, graduating in 2013. Torigen and its product, an experimental autologous cancer vaccine, are based upon the research of Dr. Mark Suckow, her former University of Notre Dame professor.