Speakers

Conference Co-Chairs

Derek Johnson

Managing Director and General Counsel
Portal Innovations

Lulu Wang

Head of Intellectual Property
Orna Therapeutics

Distinguished Faculty

Elaine Herrmann Blais

Partner - Co-Chair, Intellectual Property Litigation
Goodwin Procter LLP

Jonathan S. Caplan

Co-Chair, Intellectual Property
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Elbert Chiang

Vice President, Intellectual Property
Beam Therapeutics

Jennifer Chheda

Partner
Jones Day

Marcus A. Colucci

Special Counsel
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Kristin Anne Connarn

Partner
Hogan Lovells

Kirsten Detrick

Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder
Stealth
Chief Representative, USA
Basel Area Business & Innovation

Jennifer Fang

Partner
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

John Feore

Director, Health Policy & Advocacy
Institute for Gene Therapies (IGT)

Erin Foley

Counsel
Foley Hoag LLP

Allison Glasunow

Partner
Perkins Coie

Ryan Hagglund

Partner
Loeb & Loeb LLP

John Haugen

Senior University Counsel
Stanford University, Office of the General Counsel

Lisa Kahlman

Executive Director, Public Policy & Public Affairs
Ultragenyx

Jae Kim

Partner
DLA Piper

Roger Kuan

Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright

Forrester Liddle

Head of Global Research and Early Development Legal
Head of IP and Legal for US R&D
Novo Nordisk

Dan Liu

Attorney
Loeb & Loeb LLP

Chia-Feng Lu

Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig

Chris Mammen

Managing Partner
Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP

Bonnie Weiss McLeod

Of Counsel
Cooley LLP

Deirdre Parsons

VP Public Policy and Government Relations
Alnylam

Rebecca (Reba) Rabenstein

Partner
Latham & Watkins LLP

Jocelyn Ram

IP Counsel
The Broad Institute of MIT

Charles G. Raver

Attorney
Hyman, Phelps & McNamara PC

Daniel Shores

Member
Rothwell Figg

Laurence Shumway

Vice President, Intellectual Property Counsel
Flagship Pioneering

Meghann Teague

Head of Intellectual Property
NewAmsterdam Pharma Corporation

Eva Temkin

Partner
Arnold & Porter

Julie Tierney

Deputy Center Director
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
FDA

Mary Till

Of Counsel
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Todd Trattner

Partner
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Joseph Vittiglio

Chief Business & Legal Officer
bluebirdbio

Rebecca Wood

Partner
Sidley Austin LLP

Olga Zimmerman

Director, Intellectual Property
Caribou Biosciences, Inc.