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Brad Gartland

Senior Business Development Manager

Mail:

bga@evitria.com

Location:

Manchester, Great Britain

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Brad Gartland is a biotech commercial leader dedicated to helping organizations accelerate their therapeutic antibody development. By leveraging evitria’s scalable, high-yield CHO expression solutions, he ensures partners receive the high-quality material essential for successful preclinical programs. With over seven years of industry experience, Bradley’s background spans the full development lifecycle—beginning with lab-based antibody discovery at GSK before transitioning into strategic commercial leadership roles at Charles River Laboratories and evitria AG.

Career highlights

  • Senior Business Development Manager, evitria AG (Jul 2025–present): Partners with biopharma and biotech companies to advance therapeutic antibody programs through evitria’s transient CHO expression platform, covering monospecific and bispecific antibodies, Fc-engineered formats, antibody fragments (Fab, scFv, VHH), and recombinant proteins.
  • Senior Client Manager, Antibody Discovery & Optimization, Charles River Laboratories (Nov 2023–Jul 2025): Led commercial strategy and business development for antibody discovery and optimization services in the US market; applied go-to-market strategy across drug discovery and IP-related service portfolios.
  • Senior Account Manager, Charles River Laboratories (Aug 2021–Nov 2023): Managed key client relationships and drove revenue growth across the UK, with a focus on business relationship management and sales strategy.
  • Business Development Manager / Global BD Associate, Retrogenix (Jan 2019–Jul 2021): Developed new business in North America and globally for protein interaction screening services, from lead generation through to deal closure.
  • Research Scientist, Antibody Discovery, GSK (Sept 2017–Sept 2018): Placement year at GlaxoSmithKline (Stevenage); independently developed a high-throughput receptor binding assay (RBA) adopted department-wide for Biopharm molecule screening; applied ELISA, Design of Experiments (DOE), and mammalian tissue culture techniques.
  • Laboratory Scientist, Source BioScience Stability and Bio Storage – Placement (Jul 2016–Aug 2016): Applied GMP, GLP, and GDP standards in blood banking serology laboratory environments (class B cleanrooms); performed quality control testing and aseptic microbiology testing.

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Beyond the lab

Brad Gartland is a committed mental health advocate. He is a Trustee of the Stephen Gartland Foundation, a mental health charity established in memory of his father, and has served as DE&I Emotional Health & Wellness Lead at Charles River Laboratories. He co-founded the Walk & Talk Series, a YouTube interview series on mental health, and contributed as Mental Health Editor for Rochdale Style Magazine.

Articles written by Brad Gartland (9)

Brad writes about outsourced antibody expression, recombinant protein production, bispecific and multispecific antibody formats, and strategic considerations for preclinical biopharma programs. His content bridges commercial and scientific perspectives, drawing on direct experience with both discovery-stage research and customer-facing business development.