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Anja Skodda is the Founder/CEO/Chief Scientist of HappyBond, a company that produces human grade, nutrition essentials and food products for pets and humans.  HappyBond’s mission is to extend the Healthspan of pets and make pet people happy.  At HappyBond, she leads product development and partnerships, applying her bioengineering education and experience.  For over 20 years, Anja has combined her scientific training and entrepreneurial drive, to a variety of business ventures. Anja studied biotechnology from the Technical University of Berlin for seven years, specializing in tissue engineering of cartilage and skin.  During this time she worked on protein expression at Novartis in Basel. Her research at Novartis expedited the production of new drugs through the use of fluorescent markers.   Her biotech work includes developing the automated technology to scale the drug screening for rheumatoid arthritis, and avoiding animal testing. Anja started her entrepreneurial career in 2006, launching a Bullywood, a co