Adrianne Weir

Adrianne Weir is an innovative entrepreneur and passionate advocate for improving the nutritional options and outcomes for preterm infants. With nearly twenty years of experience in neonatal nutrition innovation, she has made significant contributions to the mission of delivering lifesaving human milk to infants worldwide. Adrianne was a founding team member of Prolacta Bioscience and co-founded Medolac with her mother in 2009, where she successfully developed a line of novel human milk-based products with impressive outcomes in clinical trials. Her leadership and market instincts focus on innovations with social impact and global market reach.

Adrianne is the only female-led commercial milk bank founder globally and has collaborated in the development and commercialization of the only two human milk-based fortifiers available worldwide. She applied economies of scale to human milk, making it the only shelf-stable breastfeeding product on the market. Her contributions continue to disrupt neonatal nutrition and milk banking space, including innovations around purified components for nutritional, therapeutic, and research applications. Adrianne has participated in numerous business accelerators and recognized consistently for her entrepreneurship in the media, speaking engagements, and events such as TechCrunch Disrupt, The Circular Summit, and Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford.