Pharma & Biotech · Advisory · KOL · AI Search

Advisory board excellence for pharma & biotech.

Curated, compliant engagements that turn KOL conversations into actionable Medical Affairs, Commercial, and Market Access strategy. Paired with modern KOL mapping and AI search visibility.

Companies Our Team Has Worked With

Selected experience across pharma, biotech, and healthcare

Pfizer
AstraZeneca
Roche
How we work

Three disciplines.
One practice.

Athera pairs traditional advisory board expertise with modern KOL intelligence and AI search visibility, so the strategic voices around your brand are also the voices shaping how payers, prescribers, and patients find information online.

01 / Voice

Advisory Boards

Curated, compliant engagements across Medical Affairs, Commercial, and Market Access. Pre-meeting planning, expert recruitment, facilitation, and reporting.

02 / Network

KOL Strategy & Mapping

Identify, profile, and prioritize key opinion leaders across therapeutic areas by clinical authority, payer reach, and digital influence.

03 / Reach

AI Search Visibility (GEO)

Generative Engine Optimization for life sciences. Help your brand surface responsibly inside AI answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI.

Services

Full-service support,
from planning to post-meeting insight.

Plan

Objective Setting & Planning

We work with your team to articulate meeting objectives and identify the right forum, whether national or regional, in-person, virtual, or hybrid.

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Recruit

Expert Recruitment

Hand-picked clinicians, payers, and key opinion leaders matched to your scientific and commercial questions. We handle contracting and compliance.

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Facilitate

Content & Workshop Development

Discussion guides, scientific workshops, and moderation techniques that encourage balanced participation and generate actionable recommendations.

Advisory capability
Execute

Logistics & Compliance

Venue and technology coordination, on-site moderation, honoraria management, and reporting aligned to Sunshine Act, EFPIA, and transparency requirements.

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Report

Post-Meeting Reporting

Topline summaries and detailed consensus papers capturing key findings, recommendations, and next steps to inform development and market access strategies.

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Amplify

AI SEO & GEO Strategy

Structured medical content, schema, and citation strategy to help your brand appear responsibly within AI-generated answers and traditional search.

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Signature capability

Advisory boards,
done right.

Pharmaceutical and biotech companies face complex regulatory environments, rapid scientific progress, and high-stakes market decisions. A well-run advisory board distills expert input into strategies that move clinical, regulatory, and commercial outcomes.

01

Curated, not crowdsourced

Every panel is composed around a strategic question, not filled from a database. We optimize for diversity of expertise and balance of perspective.

02

Compliance-first execution

Fair-market-value honoraria, transparency reporting, conflict-of-interest workflows, and documentation handled end-to-end.

03

Insights you can act on

Topline summaries, detailed consensus papers, and executive briefs, formatted so the output lands in your launch plan, not the archive.

Board types we run

Specialized panels for the questions in front of you.

Designed around the strategic decision at hand, with the right experts in the room.

Access

Payer & Market Access Boards

Inform pricing, reimbursement, and value propositions. We manage payer recruitment, compliance, logistics, and moderation.

Clinical

Clinical Development Boards

Engage clinicians and researchers to refine trial design, assess endpoints, and align programs with regulatory expectations.

R&D

Innovation & R&D Boards

Explore emerging technologies, novel therapeutic areas, and translational research opportunities that guide long-term strategy.

KOL Strategy

Map influence the way it actually works.

Traditional KOL lists are static and citation-heavy. We build a clearer picture, weighting clinical authority, payer relationships, society leadership, conference presence, and digital footprint alongside publications.

Multi-signal profiling

Publications, society roles, payer ties, speaking history, and digital presence.

Influence graph

See how KOLs connect through co-authorship, society leadership, and advisory history.

Therapeutic-area depth

Mapping tuned to the specific clinical and commercial questions in front of your team.

Compliant engagement

FMV-priced engagement workflows from scoping through contracting and honoraria.

Focal KOL
Co-author
Payer advisor
Society leader
Our process

Pre-meeting, facilitation,
post-meeting.

01

Pre-Meeting

Define objectives, recruit advisors, craft the agenda, and develop pre-reads and pre-meeting surveys to gather baseline insight.

02

Facilitation

Moderate the discussion, encourage contribution from every expert, and manage logistics and compliance throughout the meeting.

03

Post-Meeting

Immediate topline summaries, comprehensive reports, executive briefs, evaluations, and final regulatory reporting.

Ways to engage

Flexible engagement, tailored to your program.

Project-based support sized to your objectives. A single meeting, a multi-phase series, or ongoing KOL and visibility work across a launch cycle.

Single engagement

Advisory Board

One advisory board, end-to-end, from objective setting through consensus paper.

  • Objective & agenda design
  • Expert recruitment & contracting
  • Facilitation (in-person, virtual, hybrid)
  • Topline and full report
Multi-phase

Advisory Program

A connected series of boards and workshops aligned to development, launch, or access milestones.

  • Program architecture & sequencing
  • Payer, clinical, or R&D panels
  • Cross-meeting synthesis
  • Executive readouts
Ongoing

KOL + AI Visibility Retainer

Continuous KOL mapping, advisory support, and AI search positioning across a launch cycle.

  • KOL identification & profiling
  • Advisory board calendar
  • AI visibility monitoring
  • Quarterly strategic reviews
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