16th Advanced Forum on Structuring, Negotiating and Managing

Life Sciences Collaborative Agreements & Acquisitions

Maximizing Opportunities and Rewards in Your Licensing, Strategic Alliances and Partnering Deals

Monday, February 27 to Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Millennium UN Plaza Hotel, New York, New York
William F. Mongan
Executive Director, US Business Development
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals (Wilmington, DE)

John A. Hurvitz
Partner
Covington & Burling LLP (Washington, DC)

Peter Cicala
Vice President of Intellectual Property
Shire (Wayne, PA)

Matthew J. Golden
Legal Director, Patents
Merck & Co., Inc. (Kenilworth, NJ)

Jennifer A. Camacho
Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig LLP (Boston, MA)

Shane R. Albright
Partner
Hogan Lovells US LLP (Palo Alto, CA)

Seth Jacobs
Senior Patent Counsel
Pfizer, Inc. (New York, NY)

Erika Geimonem
Licensing and Business Development
Luitpold Pharmaceuticals (Norristown, PA)

Jim Neal
Vice President, Business Development
XOMA (Berkeley, CA)

Laura Ripin
Director, Business Development & Licensing
Novartis (Cambridge, MA)

Daniel Ilan
Counsel
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP (New York, NY)

Robert Hrubiec
Vice President, Intellectual Property
Cephalon (West Chester, PA)

Vanessa King, Ph.D.
Vice President, Business Development
deCODE Genetics (Waltham, MA)

Fahd M.T. Riaz
Partner
Morgan Lewis (Philadelphia, PA)

Timothy H. Ehrlich
Partner,
Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP (Waltham, MA)

Pavan Handa
Senior Vice President, Business Development
Antares Pharma, Inc.

Gilbert R. Mintz, Ph.D.
Managing Director
Fast Forward, LLC (San Francisco, CA)

Patricia Vaughan
General Counsel
The Population Council (New York, NY)

Tom Duley
Of Counsel
DLA Piper (San Francisco, CA)

Brian Adams
Corporate Counsel
AVEO Pharmaceuticals (Cambridge, MA)

Tong Zhang
Pan Regional Lead, Emerging Markets Business Development
Merck (Whitehouse Station, NJ)

James Zhu
Partner
Jun He Law Offices (Palo Alto, CA)

Rachel Cassidy
Associate Director, Licensing
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)

Robin Rasor
President, AUTM, Director of Licensing
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)

John Ritter
Senior V.P. Corporate Development and Strategy
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)

Christopher Verni
Senior Patent Counsel
ARIAD Pharmaceuticals (Cambridge, MA)

Eldora L. Ellison
Director
Sterne Kessler Goldstein Fox (Washington, DC)

Gregory Miller
Head, Business & Corporate Development
CoNCERT Pharmaceuticals (Lexington, MA)

Julia C. Owens
Senior V.P. Corporate Development and Strategy
Lycera (Plymouth, MI)

Wendy Tsai
Founder and VP Alliances
Cellona Therapeutics (Highland, MD)

Hemmie Chang
Partner
Foley Hoag LLP (Boston, MA)

Bradley Prosek
Senior Director
Cubist Pharmaceuticals (Lexington, MA)

York M. Faulkner
Partner
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP (Reston, VA)

Peter Weinstein
Corporate Counsel, Intellectual Property
Baxter Healthcare (San Diego, CA)

Karin K. Rivard
Partner
Goulston Storrs (Boston, MA)

Mr. Jeffrey D. Osterman
Partner
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP


Charan J. Sandhu
Partner
Weil, Gotshal & Manges (New York, NY)