ABD Search

About ABD Search

ABD Search is a founder-led life science recruitment partner specialising in rare disease and orphan drug programmes, with a single senior consultant managing every search from brief to offer. We work with lean, mission-driven organisations across the entire development lifecycle — from discovery and early clinical stage through regulatory approval, launch and commercialisation. That spans the full range of roles a rare disease programme depends on: research, quality, CMC and clinical through to regulatory affairs, market access, medical affairs and commercial — alongside the executive and leadership hires that set a programme's direction. We're also deeply networked with the key opinion leaders shaping the field. The leaner model is intentional. Lower overheads make a transparent partnership fee possible, and long-term collaboration replaces volume-led placement work. For rare disease programmes where capital is precious and every hire matters, a level of partnership and pricing once reserved for large-scale managed recruitment arrangements is now workable for organisations at any stage.