First Flight Venture Center to Announce Advanced Animal Diagnostic as its 2023 High Flyer Award recipient

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: AUGUST 23, 2023

First Flight Venture Center to Announce Advanced Animal Diagnostic as its 2023 High Flyer Award recipient

Research Triangle Park, NC, August 23, 2023 - First Flight Venture Center is thrilled to announce Advanced Animal Diagnostic as its 2023 High Flyer Award recipient. Now in its 3rd year, The High Flyer Awards Luncheon celebrates transformative high-growth companies building a more equitable, sustainable, and prosperous world for all. Past recipients include United Therapeutics and Baebies.

First Flight Venture Center and our program leaders that support HIGH SCIENCE, HIGH IMPACT innovation formed an independent panel of judges to select these recipients. The candidates were evaluated based on their demonstration of building long-term value through entrepreneurial spirit, purpose, growth, and impact, among other core contributions and attributes. 

Judging panel:  

  • Elaine Bolle

  • Fred Hutchinson

  • Preston Linn

  • Mary Musacchia

  • Andy Schwab

  • Dewey Steadman

  • Rich West

The First Flight Venture Center’s High Flyer Awards Luncheon will be held on November 17, 2023, at Prestonwood Country Club. Tickets can be purchased online at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2023-high-flyer-awards-luncheon-tickets-694255696477?aff=oddtdtcreator.

About First Flight Venture Center

First Flight Venture Center is a high-science, high-impact science-focused business incubator and innovation hub located in the heart of Research Triangle Park, NC. Established in 1991, First Flight has hosted more than 400 plus science-focused companies, providing strategic education, tailored resources, guidance, business connections, and office/lab space in a 25,000 sq.ft. facility. First Flight has launched businesses that have commercialized important new science breakthroughs and disruptive technologies while creating thousands of jobs in North Carolina. For more information, visit http://ffvcnc.org or view First Flight video.

For more information, contact:

Krista Covey

President

First Flight Venture Center

Office: 919.990.8558

E: kcovey@ffvcnc.org

Colleen Lozano